C'mon people, this is pretty straightforward. These are two very different things, and both are best for their jobs.
A map is more useful to someone trudging around in the sandbox with 80lbs of gear because it's lighter, the battery isn't going to die, it isn't going to break if you leave it in your pocket and it's invulnerable to software bugs or fried parts. Also, you can hand it to anyone else with basic map reading skills without the added encumbrance of old-timers that don't want your newfangled doohickey.
A large data management task at an office somewhere is obviously is a job for databases and offsite backups. Paper records should still be kept in some vault somewhere to preserve them, but employees, guests, etc. should be working with a database almost exclusively.
The bigger concern is that it could be used to stop the flow of information to the public during a severe crisis (natural disaster, military, political, etc).
Agreed. Also, I don't need those hapless fuckwits shutting down all commerce and communication every time the turrurist level goes to mauve.
Is Apple really eating MSFT's lunch? I don't mean to troll, I just haven't seen anything about Apple's laptops/desktops really hurting the PC market.
Now of course there's the largely failed attempts in the music device market, where they never had any marketshare, and the smartphone base, where no-doubt Apple is kicking them up the street, but my understanding was that MSFT lives on its OS and Office product sales. Those don't seem to be hurting in any way, from what I've seen.
It's way too late for AOL. They could hand out free puppy dogs and ice cream for the next year and nobody would ever love them again.
All 3 remaining shareholders need to get someone to fire everyone in the top 30% of pay recipients there, break the company into smaller ones with independent leadership and f'ing BURY they name AOL forever. RIP.
The noise over Miracles wasn't about internet trolls getting uppity just for fun (though it is fun). These guys didn't say, "hey these things are amazing" when they called them miracles. They suggested that these various natural things were no less than god's direct intervention in the physical world and implied that they couldn't be satisfactorily explained by science. Then they said they don't want to hear from any scientists about any of these subjects because, "[those] motherfuckers lyin'". Yeah, scientists of the world are part of a giant conspiracy to lie about where rainbows come from... fuckwits.
That's not simple awe for amazing things, that's straight-up mental retardation painted in makeup to match. Oh and I almost forgot... yes, they're some of the shittiest rappers in history.
But yes, this assumes it wasn't an intentional showboat of unbelievable stupidity on their part to get some attention for careers that went down the toilet over 10 years ago. If that's the case, then shame on them for misleading the young trash of America down the science-hater path so they can desperately try to make their next mortgage payment.
Of course I've heard all the clamor over Medicare. Medicare represents $491 billion. DOD's annual budget alone is something like $1 trillion. I believe we've spent over a $1 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iirc the bailout ran into many trillions of $'s (certainly correct me if I'm wrong, some more inflammatory sources seem to put it at $24 trillion). Not to say that Medicare isn't a serious problem, but this doesn't seem to answer this question of our war and bailout costs being a fraction of what medicare costs us. No?
Sounds like the earlier posters overall estimation of all healthcare costs as a percentage of GDP was more likely what he was talking about.
I'm quite familiar with the difference between bullets, shot, primers, wads, powder, shotshells and pistol and rifle casings. I'm a longtime shooter. I specifically used the language used in the article to avoid any confusion.
One side says war spending is the problem, the other says it's the economic bailout plan. But take both away and you've made almost no difference. Our deficit problem -- far and away -- is the soaring and seemingly unstoppable cost of health care.
I'll admit that my concept of our spending is probably skewed by intentionally misleading infographics and such, but this doesn't seem to jive with anything I've ever seen. Can someone explain how this is true, or point to something that does?
The article said it was to prevent animals from swallowing spent casings and introducing lead into the food chain. I couldn't speak to the likelihood or real impact of that actually happening.
It's not about the basic UI design, it's the click-for-click walk-through of what you'll do and what you'll see as a result. I've tried this numerous times before and regular people don't have a real grasp of basic logic and possible outcomes. This leaves you with ridiculous lines of thought that assume one possibility after they've described a situation that could result in 5,000 different possibilities. They invariably fail to recognize that their "process" generates 5,000 possibilities and don't account for 4,999 of them. When you point this out, they get flustered and embarrassed and end up saying, "Oh right... well, uh... do what you think makes sense." Or they spend 3 weeks having meetings to resolve all 5000 when you could have just provided a better way of doing it.
It says they're looking to be able to put logos and such on the plates too, to "support your favorite team". So I can just imagine what the first hacker is going to draw on a plate.
So they're running a $19 billion deficit and these are the ideas they're coming up with to fix the problem? How about, STOP SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY?
The best ones were at the bottom... other upcoming CA legislation. Making it illegal to use a mobile device while on a bicycle? Really? They have nothing better to worry about? Making all lead ammunition illegal for hunting... excepting that it's already illegal to use in most cases? Time well spent, you goofs. Oh, but they remembered to throw in some legislation to make it easier for people to transfer their foodstamp program benefits. Glad to see they have their priorities straight.:P
But, this definitely isn't ever going to be the main way that it's done. I just can't imagine there being enough consistency to make it a workable model.
Careful with those "definitely isn't ever" statements, they have a way of coming back to bite you.:)
There are a number of things about this that may or may not work. The open distribution of content is becoming increasingly common. What I think needs help is the monetization part. We just had a/. article about a "buy a frame" funding method for a movie which will also distribute freely. This one apparently runs on donations (they hope). A number of small productions seem to survive on iTunes/Xbox episode purchases and the like (Guild, et al). It's clear that there isn't an established way that works best for everyone yet, but it IS clear to me that direct donations, crowdsourced investment and episode purchases are a more direct way of making sure shows we like get the money they need, instead of being subject to all the retardedness of how TV networks work (bad scheduling, underpromotion, etc). Oh, and the cheap and free distribution route cuts out a TON of the costs involved. There's some real promise in all that.
I agree, but with exceptions. I'm comfortable somewhere in the middle. I move some kinds of storage off to services when it makes sense to do so. For instance, I use Evernote (which has been indispensible) for text and small image data that I need all the time, Dropbox (or similar) for small, frequent-use stuff I can't lose, GitHub and the like for projects and use Gmail for my private email and such. At work we also use Salesforce to keep CRM data easily available from anywhere. Note that none of these involve large amounts of storage, none are really bandwidth intensive and I still perform regular backups to local storage devices. For the most part I can go anywhere and have access to the bulk of what I'll need.
Now major apps like my IDE's are local, any of my music and video media is local, any video editing, rendering apps, graphics packages, etc are all at home on laptop or media server. Those are things it makes sense to keep local because they deal with a lot of customization or large amounts of data, making offsite tools and storage inappropriate.
There's a best tool for every job, and for me that means some stuff 'in the cloud' and some stuff is local.
It sounds like you know a lot about this, is there a cheap/easy way for labs to extract and store stem cells from a person today for possible future use?
I'd guess risk is a easier thing to shrug off if you're knocking on deaths door and nobody in your home country is allowed to try anything to stop it for another 43 years of review and trials.
My company does this sanely, in that they want me to be able to tell them what they want to know about everyones traffic if I'm asked for it. But everyone understands that I'm not actually reviewing their browsing histories and reporting upwards on a regular basis and I have no voyeuristic tendencies. The company knows they can trust me not to be intrusive until there's a real business case for it. The logs run all the time and they're just locked down so nobody can see them but me, unless I've been asked to pull a report. I do occasionally look at uncorrelated lists of biggest bandwidth consuming websites, etc.
As with most places I've worked, the logs exist to confirm suspicions, and they invariably back up what management already knows. If they walk past the same person f'ing around on facebook three times in one day, chances are good they're spending way too much time on BS personal stuff. Even then, they only ask to see logs if that same person isn't doing their job and complains that their workload is too overwhelming.
In some cases (at other co's I've worked for) web and phone usage were only used as supporting material when someone was about to be canned anyway.
Adafruit does have their very cool "Tweet-a-watt" kit if you're brave enough to try to hack off-the-shelf Kill-a-Watt devices. Of course the kit is $90 for 1 outlet and 1 base station, and doesn't include the kill-a-watt devices themselves.:(
A few places I've worked IT fell under Operations, the same people that keep the lightbulbs changed, the warehouse shipping and the driveway plowed.
Presently I work at a smaller business, where I represent the department. I'm lateral to Operations Director, sales director, etc and report directly to the President and VP.
I guess that they are accountable, at least in that nobody would use an RBL that consistently blocked email from valid sources. It's also worth noting that Spamhaus provides a straightforward "fix" for being inappropriately banned. Of course there must be services out there that don't, but I wouldn't use them. Seems like a largely self-correcting situation all-around, no?
These particular scientists (or rather all the employees there) let us motorcycle riders cruise around the facility surrounding the Tevatron whenever we want, and never greet us with anything but smiles and friendly conversation. Even when a bunch of biker looking guys decide to stop in and press our faces to the glass at the Fermi+CERN room or pull off on one of the access roads to take photographs of their small herd of bison, the many tanker trucks marked "Liquid Nitrogen" in big letters, or one of their many bizarre looking buildings (even the ones with the little radioactive signs on them). It's particularly amazing how open they are with unsupervised visitors given the ridiculous "fear of teh turrorists" mentality that's so prevalent now. In my mind, they really can do no wrong. I hope the ridiculously smart people there find whatever it is they're looking for... it's just a shame I'm too dumb to understand their work.
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I've read that most criminals use "phones" to communicate. Where's that Echelon shortcut...
"Bigelow Aerospace"?
I realize I represent the lowest common denominator here, but this reminds me of bad Rob Schneider movies.
C'mon people, this is pretty straightforward. These are two very different things, and both are best for their jobs.
A map is more useful to someone trudging around in the sandbox with 80lbs of gear because it's lighter, the battery isn't going to die, it isn't going to break if you leave it in your pocket and it's invulnerable to software bugs or fried parts. Also, you can hand it to anyone else with basic map reading skills without the added encumbrance of old-timers that don't want your newfangled doohickey.
A large data management task at an office somewhere is obviously is a job for databases and offsite backups. Paper records should still be kept in some vault somewhere to preserve them, but employees, guests, etc. should be working with a database almost exclusively.
The bigger concern is that it could be used to stop the flow of information to the public during a severe crisis (natural disaster, military, political, etc).
Agreed. Also, I don't need those hapless fuckwits shutting down all commerce and communication every time the turrurist level goes to mauve.
This is really cool. Though I'd guess that the neighbors will be up-in-arms soon, even if you tell them it's completely safe.
I think my parents said the same thing about me. Now I think I'll go pick up some non-credit classes at the local community college. ;)
Is Apple really eating MSFT's lunch? I don't mean to troll, I just haven't seen anything about Apple's laptops/desktops really hurting the PC market.
Now of course there's the largely failed attempts in the music device market, where they never had any marketshare, and the smartphone base, where no-doubt Apple is kicking them up the street, but my understanding was that MSFT lives on its OS and Office product sales. Those don't seem to be hurting in any way, from what I've seen.
This is what I could pull up quickly on google, and may be outdated a bit, but is 5% a huge step up?
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/windows-7-growing-faster-than-vista-overtakes-mac-os.ars
It's way too late for AOL. They could hand out free puppy dogs and ice cream for the next year and nobody would ever love them again.
All 3 remaining shareholders need to get someone to fire everyone in the top 30% of pay recipients there, break the company into smaller ones with independent leadership and f'ing BURY they name AOL forever. RIP.
The noise over Miracles wasn't about internet trolls getting uppity just for fun (though it is fun). These guys didn't say, "hey these things are amazing" when they called them miracles. They suggested that these various natural things were no less than god's direct intervention in the physical world and implied that they couldn't be satisfactorily explained by science. Then they said they don't want to hear from any scientists about any of these subjects because, "[those] motherfuckers lyin'". Yeah, scientists of the world are part of a giant conspiracy to lie about where rainbows come from... fuckwits.
That's not simple awe for amazing things, that's straight-up mental retardation painted in makeup to match. Oh and I almost forgot... yes, they're some of the shittiest rappers in history.
But yes, this assumes it wasn't an intentional showboat of unbelievable stupidity on their part to get some attention for careers that went down the toilet over 10 years ago. If that's the case, then shame on them for misleading the young trash of America down the science-hater path so they can desperately try to make their next mortgage payment.
Of course I've heard all the clamor over Medicare. Medicare represents $491 billion. DOD's annual budget alone is something like $1 trillion. I believe we've spent over a $1 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iirc the bailout ran into many trillions of $'s (certainly correct me if I'm wrong, some more inflammatory sources seem to put it at $24 trillion). Not to say that Medicare isn't a serious problem, but this doesn't seem to answer this question of our war and bailout costs being a fraction of what medicare costs us. No?
Sounds like the earlier posters overall estimation of all healthcare costs as a percentage of GDP was more likely what he was talking about.
I'm quite familiar with the difference between bullets, shot, primers, wads, powder, shotshells and pistol and rifle casings. I'm a longtime shooter. I specifically used the language used in the article to avoid any confusion.
One side says war spending is the problem, the other says it's the economic bailout plan. But take both away and you've made almost no difference. Our deficit problem -- far and away -- is the soaring and seemingly unstoppable cost of health care.
I'll admit that my concept of our spending is probably skewed by intentionally misleading infographics and such, but this doesn't seem to jive with anything I've ever seen. Can someone explain how this is true, or point to something that does?
The article said it was to prevent animals from swallowing spent casings and introducing lead into the food chain. I couldn't speak to the likelihood or real impact of that actually happening.
It's not about the basic UI design, it's the click-for-click walk-through of what you'll do and what you'll see as a result. I've tried this numerous times before and regular people don't have a real grasp of basic logic and possible outcomes. This leaves you with ridiculous lines of thought that assume one possibility after they've described a situation that could result in 5,000 different possibilities. They invariably fail to recognize that their "process" generates 5,000 possibilities and don't account for 4,999 of them. When you point this out, they get flustered and embarrassed and end up saying, "Oh right... well, uh... do what you think makes sense." Or they spend 3 weeks having meetings to resolve all 5000 when you could have just provided a better way of doing it.
It says they're looking to be able to put logos and such on the plates too, to "support your favorite team". So I can just imagine what the first hacker is going to draw on a plate.
So they're running a $19 billion deficit and these are the ideas they're coming up with to fix the problem? How about, STOP SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY?
The best ones were at the bottom... other upcoming CA legislation. Making it illegal to use a mobile device while on a bicycle? Really? They have nothing better to worry about? Making all lead ammunition illegal for hunting... excepting that it's already illegal to use in most cases? Time well spent, you goofs. Oh, but they remembered to throw in some legislation to make it easier for people to transfer their foodstamp program benefits. Glad to see they have their priorities straight. :P
But, this definitely isn't ever going to be the main way that it's done. I just can't imagine there being enough consistency to make it a workable model.
Careful with those "definitely isn't ever" statements, they have a way of coming back to bite you. :)
There are a number of things about this that may or may not work. The open distribution of content is becoming increasingly common. What I think needs help is the monetization part. We just had a /. article about a "buy a frame" funding method for a movie which will also distribute freely. This one apparently runs on donations (they hope). A number of small productions seem to survive on iTunes/Xbox episode purchases and the like (Guild, et al). It's clear that there isn't an established way that works best for everyone yet, but it IS clear to me that direct donations, crowdsourced investment and episode purchases are a more direct way of making sure shows we like get the money they need, instead of being subject to all the retardedness of how TV networks work (bad scheduling, underpromotion, etc). Oh, and the cheap and free distribution route cuts out a TON of the costs involved. There's some real promise in all that.
I agree, but with exceptions. I'm comfortable somewhere in the middle. I move some kinds of storage off to services when it makes sense to do so. For instance, I use Evernote (which has been indispensible) for text and small image data that I need all the time, Dropbox (or similar) for small, frequent-use stuff I can't lose, GitHub and the like for projects and use Gmail for my private email and such. At work we also use Salesforce to keep CRM data easily available from anywhere. Note that none of these involve large amounts of storage, none are really bandwidth intensive and I still perform regular backups to local storage devices. For the most part I can go anywhere and have access to the bulk of what I'll need.
Now major apps like my IDE's are local, any of my music and video media is local, any video editing, rendering apps, graphics packages, etc are all at home on laptop or media server. Those are things it makes sense to keep local because they deal with a lot of customization or large amounts of data, making offsite tools and storage inappropriate.
There's a best tool for every job, and for me that means some stuff 'in the cloud' and some stuff is local.
It sounds like you know a lot about this, is there a cheap/easy way for labs to extract and store stem cells from a person today for possible future use?
I'd guess risk is a easier thing to shrug off if you're knocking on deaths door and nobody in your home country is allowed to try anything to stop it for another 43 years of review and trials.
Very cool indeed, saw his speech and demo on TED.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/josh_silver_demos_adjustable_liquid_filled_eyeglasses.html
My company does this sanely, in that they want me to be able to tell them what they want to know about everyones traffic if I'm asked for it. But everyone understands that I'm not actually reviewing their browsing histories and reporting upwards on a regular basis and I have no voyeuristic tendencies. The company knows they can trust me not to be intrusive until there's a real business case for it. The logs run all the time and they're just locked down so nobody can see them but me, unless I've been asked to pull a report. I do occasionally look at uncorrelated lists of biggest bandwidth consuming websites, etc.
As with most places I've worked, the logs exist to confirm suspicions, and they invariably back up what management already knows. If they walk past the same person f'ing around on facebook three times in one day, chances are good they're spending way too much time on BS personal stuff. Even then, they only ask to see logs if that same person isn't doing their job and complains that their workload is too overwhelming.
In some cases (at other co's I've worked for) web and phone usage were only used as supporting material when someone was about to be canned anyway.
Adafruit does have their very cool "Tweet-a-watt" kit if you're brave enough to try to hack off-the-shelf Kill-a-Watt devices. Of course the kit is $90 for 1 outlet and 1 base station, and doesn't include the kill-a-watt devices themselves. :(
A few places I've worked IT fell under Operations, the same people that keep the lightbulbs changed, the warehouse shipping and the driveway plowed.
Presently I work at a smaller business, where I represent the department. I'm lateral to Operations Director, sales director, etc and report directly to the President and VP.
I guess that they are accountable, at least in that nobody would use an RBL that consistently blocked email from valid sources. It's also worth noting that Spamhaus provides a straightforward "fix" for being inappropriately banned. Of course there must be services out there that don't, but I wouldn't use them. Seems like a largely self-correcting situation all-around, no?
These particular scientists (or rather all the employees there) let us motorcycle riders cruise around the facility surrounding the Tevatron whenever we want, and never greet us with anything but smiles and friendly conversation. Even when a bunch of biker looking guys decide to stop in and press our faces to the glass at the Fermi+CERN room or pull off on one of the access roads to take photographs of their small herd of bison, the many tanker trucks marked "Liquid Nitrogen" in big letters, or one of their many bizarre looking buildings (even the ones with the little radioactive signs on them). It's particularly amazing how open they are with unsupervised visitors given the ridiculous "fear of teh turrorists" mentality that's so prevalent now. In my mind, they really can do no wrong. I hope the ridiculously smart people there find whatever it is they're looking for... it's just a shame I'm too dumb to understand their work.
To give you an idea...
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Fermi+National+Lab+Library,+Batavia,+IL&sll=41.846547,-88.248367&sspn=0.07225,0.154324&ie=UTF8&hq=Fermi+National+Lab+Library,&hnear=Batavia,+Kane,+Illinois&ll=41.840856,-88.253002&spn=0.036128,0.077162&t=h&z=14&iwloc=A