It is something the geek has been known to give a positive spin:
3. Microsoft's senior leadership is middle-aging. Older folks with families and kids don't have the same priorities as younger employees -- and they're not as hungry workaholics. The average Microsoft employee is 38 years old, according to the company's self-published corporate data. Only 15.9 percent of employees are under 30. By comparison, Google employees' average age is somewhere under 30. The company doesn't publicly release average age, presumably because of an age-discrimination lawsuit. According to the last publicly available data, less than 2 percent of Googlers were over 40. For Microsoft: 40.7 percent. Most employees are young, fresh from college and have fewer family obligations and other distractions from work. The corporate culture encourages employees to work long hours and provides services that support the work ethic. Googlers can quickly advance up the management chain, and they can look forward to healthy compensation-for-results rewards. The most innovative thinkers are at the top of the decision-making tree rather than being at the bottom (under much older managers). Five reasons why Microsoft can't compete (and Steve Ballmer isn't one of them) [June 22]
The opposite is true. Teslas are still selling for close to retail.
There are only about 1,000 Teslas you could buy:
In the first quarter of [this] year, Tesla sold a total of 126 cars... 9.7 cars a week.
A few qualifications: First, the company currently only sells the Tesla Roadster, which retails for $109,000. Only so many buyers for cars like that exist in the world. The company also continues to have a long waiting list. An estimated 2,200 customers have put $5,000 deposits down on the Model S, the all-electric sedan coming in 2012. Tesla Sales Down on Eve of IPO
[June 23]
The Model S has an estimated base price around $60,000.
Tesla is regarded with some suspicion in the financial press.
The company will stop producing the vehicle it became known for, the Roadster sports car, and focus on a premium sedan called the Model-S. This car's selling point: According to Tesla, it will go up to 300 miles per charge, far further than other manufacturers claim for their electric cars. Tesla says it hasn't based its range forecast on a working prototype but chiefly on computer models. And, its IPO filing says, potential new government standards could result in a 30% cut to Tesla's advertised ranges.
The government also needs to ensure private investors don't cash out on the back of its largesse. It has tried that with Tesla, saying the loan will go into default if big shareholders, including Chief Executive Elon Musk, fail to hold at least 65% of their stock for at least a year after the Model-S project is complete. Guaranteed Risks in America's Green Loans [June 24]
Your FUD against EVs is noted. I can see that you are either a shill or a troll. Please include citations in your next comment, or don't bother.
When selling a radically new car for the mass consumer market the burden is on you to prove that it is practical and affordable.
If popular opinion says that EVs aren't there yet, it's an option that is likely to be shared by my bank or credit union when I hit them for an auto loan.
What more information could you want from a cemetery database? Joe Smith - Plot 117A - Interred on 6/25/2010 - pretty much covers everything the cemetery cares about, doesn't it? More information such as their birth date, date of death, years of service, etc. is probably not the cemetery's problem.
Arlington is a national memorial park.
There are many things the visitor or historian will want to know:
For example, when were the first women buried here - not a dependents but as soldiers?
Why is it so hard for them to understand that at one time, music was about artistic expression? If nobody could ever make one penny from their music, I guarantee you that music would not die.
Which exposes an uncomfortable truth about "the music of the people:"
There is never very much of it.
ASCAP is a performance-rights organization founded in 1914.
Early members included Victor Herbert, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, John Philip Sousa, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, Lorenz Hart, Jimmy McHugh, Richard Rodgers, Fred Rose and Harry Warren.
The geek might not recognize all the names. But he does know their music.
Harry Warren wrote over 500 songs for the movies, among them, Forty-Second Street, Lullaby of Broadway, We're In The Money, Serenade in Blue, and Chattanooga Choo Choo.
Fred Rose, Hank Williams and Jimmie Rogers were the first to be initiated into The Country Music Hall of Fame.
And there are already systems available that can manage cemeteries so why not purchase one?
Arlington has 300,000 gravesites on 624 acres.
"In addition to in-ground burial, Arlington National Cemetery also has one of the larger columbariums for cremated remains in the country. Four courts are currently in use, each with 5,000 niches. When construction is complete, there will be nine courts with a total of 50,000 niches; capacity for 100,000 remains." Arlington National Cemetery
Does your off-the-shelf package scale to to a cemetery of that size?
Arlington has extraordinary historical significance. The data base needs to be more than a bare list of names and dates.
In World War II, amateur radio was shut down and replaced by a community-licensed War Emergency service.
Television took the same path.
Print, Radio, and Film was censored.
There would be no new cars, telephones, typewriters or radios, except for those on the highest-priority lists.
The proposed law makes explicit what the geek should already know: in times of national emergency, the power of the government has no definable limits.
I bet Google doesn't even care if it succeeds; odds are, they have it out there to put pressure on MPEG-LA with respect to licensing fees. They're not going to suddenly switch YouTube over to all WebM.
The enterprise cap on H.264 royalties is $5 million/year.
That is the cost to Google.
The cost to Disney/Pixar - and it covers every distribution channel and outlet the mega media corporation owns.
The independent tv broadcaster has the option of paying a one-time charge of $2500 per H.264 encoder or on a sliding scale beginning at $2500 for markets of less than 500,000 households.
If you are self-hosting freely distributed - feature length - videos on the net - and god alone knows why - this is probably the limit of your exposure.
it can also be deliberately misused to purposefully frame people. Leaving false DNA evidence is much easier than copying someones fingerprints.
I would like to see some real-world examples.
The frame you left behind may be carrying traces of your own DNA.
Your victim now has every reason to spill the beans, expose everything he knows about your operation since the day your were expelled from My Darling Little Angels Day Care Center.
What the stat means is that a broad spectrum of websites globally are seeing as many hits from Apple's "walled garden" of mobile devices as they are seeing from anything running Linux.
The numbers look even more impressive when you realize that the iPhone and iPod Touch have only been on the market three years.
Apple has staked its future on the high end of the mobile device market, the mobile hardware market. That can be a very precarious perch in times of recession.
Microsoft sells software and services to a much broader spectrum of buyers.
HTML5 may offer a unified way to do things...but that does not mean that the other ways will just vanish.
Nor does it mean that new ways will not evolve outside the standard.
The standards committee moves slowly. It is beset by commercial, nationalist and ideological rivalries - which the entrepreneur - the outsider - can cheerfully ignore.
Windows 91% Mac 5% Linux 1.1% iPhone 0.6% iPod Touch 0.1% iPad 0.1%
These are global stats, not US, remember.
Apple's "walled garden" - despite the price of admission - is well on its way to becoming a larger presence on the web than the Linux PC or mobile device.
what remains is pure profit; sale and distribution of pure data is effectively free.
First you have to make the sale.
Maintaining the Amazon.com web site is not free. Marketing the Kindle e-book catalog is not free. The web page for a popular book or series could easily be many times the size of the e-book download.
There is no free lunch.
Sales have to be properly documented, payments processed through Mastercard and Visa, accounts settled with the publishers.
It should fall under general privacy law: if you dont spend the time/energy to setup encryption of some form, dont expect privacy
To begin, I am not sure there is such a thing as "general privacy law."
But the interception, disclosure and exploitation of private radio communication was the subject of federal legislation as early as The Radio Act of 1927, when mechanical cipher machines were still in their infancy.
The fact that eavesdropping on private networks and services in those days was trivially easy did not make such behavior legal or ethical.
You'd think those guys would seize any opportunity to stay relevant. It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot, another to do it when you're inches from death.
AOL has seen $3 billion in revenues this past year and a gross profit of $1.36 billion. Total cash on hand $262 million. Total debt $60 million. AOL Key Statistics
As for SHOUTcast, it offers 40,000 stations and draws about a half million listeners. SHOUTcast It is well represented on streaming media devices like Boxee, ViewSonic's NextTV, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Men who function more typically socially will treat women differently.
They treat other men differently as well.
It doesn't matter that the idea is old - if the implementation of the idea is new.
Fifty-six percent of women in technology companies leave their organizations at the mid-level point, 10-20 years in their careers
At Google, you're old and gray at 40. [June 22]
It is something the geek has been known to give a positive spin:
3. Microsoft's senior leadership is middle-aging. Older folks with families and kids don't have the same priorities as younger employees -- and they're not as hungry workaholics.
The average Microsoft employee is 38 years old, according to the company's self-published corporate data. Only 15.9 percent of employees are under 30. By comparison, Google employees' average age is somewhere under 30. The company doesn't publicly release average age, presumably because of an age-discrimination lawsuit. According to the last publicly available data, less than 2 percent of Googlers were over 40. For Microsoft: 40.7 percent.
Most employees are young, fresh from college and have fewer family obligations and other distractions from work. The corporate culture encourages employees to work long hours and provides services that support the work ethic. Googlers can quickly advance up the management chain, and they can look forward to healthy compensation-for-results rewards.
The most innovative thinkers are at the top of the decision-making tree rather than being at the bottom (under much older managers). Five reasons why Microsoft can't compete (and Steve Ballmer isn't one of them) [June 22]
The reporter whose life is in danger needs more than a virtual shelter for himself and his family. He needs a ticket out.
The opposite is true. Teslas are still selling for close to retail.
There are only about 1,000 Teslas you could buy:
In the first quarter of [this] year, Tesla sold a total of 126 cars ... 9.7 cars a week.
A few qualifications: First, the company currently only sells the Tesla Roadster, which retails for $109,000. Only so many buyers for cars like that exist in the world. The company also continues to have a long waiting list. An estimated 2,200 customers have put $5,000 deposits down on the Model S, the all-electric sedan coming in 2012.
Tesla Sales Down on Eve of IPO
[June 23]
The Model S has an estimated base price around $60,000.
Tesla is regarded with some suspicion in the financial press.
The company will stop producing the vehicle it became known for, the Roadster sports car, and focus on a premium sedan called the Model-S. This car's selling point: According to Tesla, it will go up to 300 miles per charge, far further than other manufacturers claim for their electric cars. Tesla says it hasn't based its range forecast on a working prototype but chiefly on computer models. And, its IPO filing says, potential new government standards could result in a 30% cut to Tesla's advertised ranges.
The government also needs to ensure private investors don't cash out on the back of its largesse. It has tried that with Tesla, saying the loan will go into default if big shareholders, including Chief Executive Elon Musk, fail to hold at least 65% of their stock for at least a year after the Model-S project is complete. Guaranteed Risks in America's Green Loans [June 24]
Elon Musk is widely regarded as a big-time spender who always seems to be skating on the edge of disaster. Elon Musk, Head of Tesla Motors, Is Broke
Your FUD against EVs is noted. I can see that you are either a shill or a troll. Please include citations in your next comment, or don't bother.
When selling a radically new car for the mass consumer market the burden is on you to prove that it is practical and affordable.
If popular opinion says that EVs aren't there yet, it's an option that is likely to be shared by my bank or credit union when I hit them for an auto loan.
we won't mention any bribery to get "trolleys" off the road, now will we?)
This is fantasy.
Trolley lines were in deep financial trouble before World War One.
The trolley was a commuter service.
There were tracks, cars and overheads to maintain but almost none of the twenty four hour a day freight traffic of heavy rail to help cover the cost.
The operating costs of the Ford car was pennies per mile.
Cheaper than the standard 5 cent fare.
It's possible people might even have to ride bicycles a bit. Oh dear. Maybe they'll get thinner and healthier
Weather permitting.
Past summers here have been hot and humid enough to be dangerous to a fit young adult on a bicycle.
Toyota RAV4 EV's sell for more than their original MSRP 10 years ago right now on eBay.
I don't want to hear about the auction of a curio on eBay. I want to hear about used car sales through local dealers.
Gaming is one of the last things keeping people from switching to Linux entirely
Linux has a global 1% share of the desktop. Top Operating System Share Trend
I can't believe that 99% of the holdouts are PC gamers.
What more information could you want from a cemetery database?
Joe Smith - Plot 117A - Interred on 6/25/2010 - pretty much covers everything the cemetery cares about, doesn't it? More information such as their birth date, date of death, years of service, etc. is probably not the cemetery's problem.
Arlington is a national memorial park.
There are many things the visitor or historian will want to know:
For example, when were the first women buried here - not a dependents but as soldiers?
Why is it so hard for them to understand that at one time, music was about artistic expression?
If nobody could ever make one penny from their music, I guarantee you that music would not die.
The Jubilee Singers and Their Songs [1892] introduced a larger - white - audience to 139 work songs and spirituals of the plantation South.
300 years of an authentic folk tradition.
Which exposes an uncomfortable truth about "the music of the people:"
There is never very much of it.
ASCAP is a performance-rights organization founded in 1914.
Early members included Victor Herbert, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, John Philip Sousa, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, Lorenz Hart, Jimmy McHugh, Richard Rodgers, Fred Rose and Harry Warren.
The geek might not recognize all the names. But he does know their music.
Harry Warren wrote over 500 songs for the movies, among them, Forty-Second Street, Lullaby of Broadway, We're In The Money, Serenade in Blue, and Chattanooga Choo Choo.
Fred Rose, Hank Williams and Jimmie Rogers were the first to be initiated into The Country Music Hall of Fame.
And there are already systems available that can manage cemeteries so why not purchase one?
Arlington has 300,000 gravesites on 624 acres.
"In addition to in-ground burial, Arlington National Cemetery also has one of the larger columbariums for cremated remains in the country. Four courts are currently in use, each with 5,000 niches. When construction is complete, there will be nine courts with a total of 50,000 niches; capacity for 100,000 remains." Arlington National Cemetery
Does your off-the-shelf package scale to to a cemetery of that size?
Arlington has extraordinary historical significance. The data base needs to be more than a bare list of names and dates.
In World War II, amateur radio was shut down and replaced by a community-licensed War Emergency service.
Television took the same path.
Print, Radio, and Film was censored.
There would be no new cars, telephones, typewriters or radios, except for those on the highest-priority lists.
The proposed law makes explicit what the geek should already know: in times of national emergency, the power of the government has no definable limits.
I bet Google doesn't even care if it succeeds; odds are, they have it out there to put pressure on MPEG-LA with respect to licensing fees. They're not going to suddenly switch YouTube over to all WebM.
The enterprise cap on H.264 royalties is $5 million/year.
That is the cost to Google.
The cost to Disney/Pixar - and it covers every distribution channel and outlet the mega media corporation owns.
Broadcast. Cable. Satellite. Internet. Cellular...
The independent tv broadcaster has the option of paying a one-time charge of $2500 per H.264 encoder or on a sliding scale beginning at $2500 for markets of less than 500,000 households.
If you are self-hosting freely distributed - feature length - videos on the net - and god alone knows why - this is probably the limit of your exposure.
There's a lot of references that require considerable education at times to really appreciate.
Nerd alert.
The problem is that the general audience quickly grows tired of being bombarded with inside jokes - at the expense of story, action and character.
You only have twenty minutes or so of screen time to deliver the goods.
it can also be deliberately misused to purposefully frame people. Leaving false DNA evidence is much easier than copying someones fingerprints.
I would like to see some real-world examples.
The frame you left behind may be carrying traces of your own DNA.
Your victim now has every reason to spill the beans, expose everything he knows about your operation since the day your were expelled from My Darling Little Angels Day Care Center.
As a New Yorker, I've never quite understood why Albany is the capital and not NYC.
In most states - and in most counties - the biggest city never remains the capital.
It ignites too many old rivalries and suspicions: Rural vs Urban.
City vs City.
Inland vs Coastal. Manufacturing vs Trade.
Albany was the crossroads:
The Mohawk, the route of the Erie Canal, West.
North, Lake Champagne, northern New England and Canada. South, the Hudson and New York City.
I'm not sure if the stat is meaningful.
What the stat means is that a broad spectrum of websites globally are seeing as many hits from Apple's "walled garden" of mobile devices as they are seeing from anything running Linux.
The numbers look even more impressive when you realize that the iPhone and iPod Touch have only been on the market three years.
Look at the hype for the iPad, for Android. Notice the FTC looking at Google, Notice no one cares about MS anymore; They're becoming irrelevant.
Hype is a fad.
Hype is noise.
Hype is 0.11% of the web for Android. 0.09% for the iPad.
Relevancy is 91.3% of the web for Windows. Operating System Market Share Relevancy is a trend line that is moving visibly upwards. Top Operating System Share Trend
Apple has staked its future on the high end of the mobile device market, the mobile hardware market. That can be a very precarious perch in times of recession.
Microsoft sells software and services to a much broader spectrum of buyers.
It is lightly exposed on the hardware side.
HTML5 may offer a unified way to do things...but that does not mean that the other ways will just vanish.
Nor does it mean that new ways will not evolve outside the standard.
The standards committee moves slowly. It is beset by commercial, nationalist and ideological rivalries - which the entrepreneur - the outsider - can cheerfully ignore.
I wish I could simply forget SourceForge.net
The "walled garden" won't be the death of Apple. The alternative of a similar garden without walls will.
I doubt it.
Operating System Market Share
Windows 91%
Mac 5%
Linux 1.1%
iPhone 0.6%
iPod Touch 0.1%
iPad 0.1%
These are global stats, not US, remember.
Apple's "walled garden" - despite the price of admission - is well on its way to becoming a larger presence on the web than the Linux PC or mobile device.
First you have to make the sale.
Maintaining the Amazon.com web site is not free. Marketing the Kindle e-book catalog is not free. The web page for a popular book or series could easily be many times the size of the e-book download.
There is no free lunch.
Sales have to be properly documented, payments processed through Mastercard and Visa, accounts settled with the publishers.
To begin, I am not sure there is such a thing as "general privacy law."
But the interception, disclosure and exploitation of private radio communication was the subject of federal legislation as early as The Radio Act of 1927, when mechanical cipher machines were still in their infancy.
The fact that eavesdropping on private networks and services in those days was trivially easy did not make such behavior legal or ethical.
You'd think those guys would seize any opportunity to stay relevant. It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot, another to do it when you're inches from death.
AOL has seen $3 billion in revenues this past year and a gross profit of $1.36 billion. Total cash on hand $262 million. Total debt $60 million. AOL Key Statistics
As for SHOUTcast, it offers 40,000 stations and draws about a half million listeners. SHOUTcast It is well represented on streaming media devices like Boxee, ViewSonic's NextTV, etc.