I think like anything else, have the degree/accredation means nothing. If you really put enough work into it, anyone with a 'high enough' IQ can be a doctor, lawyer or MBA. It doesn't mean that you have the people skills, ability/talent or the intelligence to use the knowledge productively or beneficially afterwards. Some doctors choose to use the same diagnoses time after time if they don't know what their patients have. MBAs were repeatedly critized on the mini-Microsoft blog for their management strategies.
IBM is also doing a lot of contracting work. From what I've seen they are quite successful at it. I know, they haven't gone without their fare share of critique on Slashdot.
Its also a sign of changing times. There's a lot of traditional manufacturing that hasn't to some extent been outsourced but market saturation *and* lots of management problems are causing the BIG 4 automakers to close down plants galore in Canada and the US. (some might be going to Mexico?). We're probably going to have to figure out how to retool these places for other uses. That needs some creative MBAs!!!
IMO, I keep thinking I need to upgrade my computer. But, I bought an HP refurbed workstation Xeon 2.4 1 GB ECC PC 2700 RAM, USCSI HDD for $200. I upgraded the video card and RAM since buying it. I like it in the sense its fast enough for my needs and to me more importantly keeps it out of the landfill. Custom building, like Dells old business model is silly now. It was realistic when the PCs were $1000+ where Dell could realistically save you hundreds $$$$, but with cheaper quality PC components you can build a half decent system for under $500 that's equivalent to most Dells.
I'm expanding here to get some clarifications and I'm making a few leaping, uninformed statments here.....
But, if there are elements of the FBI gathering intelligence on domestic terrorists and a separate for international, then doesn't that mean, technically that that info could go on A-Space? And, wouldn't that also put Dept. Homeland Security in a conflicting state of interest since its under the umbrella of CIA and FBI (where the CIA isn't supposed to get domestic information)? Maybe under DHS it changed or maybe through compartmentalization of FBI?
Without knowing any specifics what-so-ever, technically the 9-11 attacks could only have been "stopped" if the FBI used its domestic collection of intelligence (the guys only wanting to fly but not land planes) with the CIA which would then relate that to international intelligence collection that would then pass it to the FBI to use domestically? If the intelligence was so darned classified would the CIA still act domestically or would it still have to forward it to the FBI? Or is it different if they dont get caught?
Maybe my ideas are crossing too many fences but as the policies are/were setup isn't there a huge problem with how the system is setup?
Since there's a lot less moving parts and no thick metal parts like hard-drives are the SSDs more Green-Friendly in the manufacturing phase and end-of-life to recycle? Since there's been a lot of consideration in the industry about environmental friendliness I through this might be something that should be brought up.
Look up "News I'd like to F*#K" by Samatha Bee on The Daily Show. My favorite skit and show of why Bee is the best correspondent comedic talent on the show.
Oops! I'm Canadian its (supposed) to work different here. Different structure, same result.
My bwidth is capped at 60 GB. I just signed up with my ISP because it was a week quicker and is cheaper and all in one bill. Next year, I'm cancelling and going with a far better provider. I don't hate my current provider, the other offers better peering, lower latency and really unlimited bandwidth.
You'd have to get into federal and not state politics. Comcast is nation-wide. Mayors and local politicans, though I'm sure would be more willing to cooperate, won't help a cent if they can't do anything. Its at the FCC, Senate and Congressman level.
I pay about $40 a month for an (unofficial) 60 GB. Highway robbery. They all use the same PR crap. 5 or 10 % of users use 90% of the bandwidth. So what if they do? They were advertising for the most part true-unlimited internet. What's changed?
iTunes, YouTUBE, and the other services you mention. If you've worked for a cable company before, you'll know that there are a TON of calls coming in to order movies, PPV, etc. If the cable company is publicly traded and is in multi-states or nation-wide and esp. in densely or highly populated stakes the revenue you'd loose would be tremendous.
The only way to win. The pocketbooks. Don't order PPV. Download as much as you can to the cap each month. Encourage others to do the same.
"After a great deal of public focus, Canada's Rogers Wireless has revealed that, despite the scrutiny the company's data plans see, 95-percent of iPhone customers have used less than 10-percent of their data plan. The news comes after Rogers was blasted for not including unlimited data like with AT&T in the US, according to The Globe and Mail."
Oh yeah. Give the impression data is almost unlimited. Then when people aren't using enough, decrease the data that can be used. Why make it unlimited if nobody uses it? Then, say well since 5% of users use 90% of bandwidth (same argument with Cable/DSL providers), charge an absurd amount of money for over-use and throttle connections.
The living conditions in these houses tends to not require AC to cool the house even in warm climates in warm/hot seasons. I don't know if this is practical, but in theory the building should be cooler to begin with.
An illiterate person can probably get away with using the web. And on illiteracy, consider too that if 15% of the world speaks Spanish but only 10% are literate, then it reduces the potential audience let alone those that can afford a computer. Heck, there are families in Canada and the US that cannot afford a computer and they are literate. Sadly enough.
And lets not forget that even if you are literate and speak a language well, it does not mean you can write it. Nigerian 411's being the prime example of this.
Beta Release..... Final Version, what's the difference? This is Microsoft afterall! I have been a proud (but unregistered) Beta Tester for Microsoft for many, many, many years!
Wow, just wow! It was a freaking joke! I was just spinning the word "penetration tester" since it was part of the original question.
Haven't you seen other posts, with have wife/girlfriend.... you must be new here that are all moderated as funny? Guess not. Someone might just have modded wrong. Innocent mistake.
Conspiracy theorists tend to use "common sense" which defeats the logic, methods, evidence collection and theories of science. All these detailed schematics, computer simulations, engineers with Harvard and MIT degrees don't make any sense. Any oversimplification of the matter with numbers, facts and figures doesn't have to make *any* sense. If you know what happened, then that is irrefutible. No matter that there are others with conspiracy theories. Yours is always right. Who needs all that engineering stuff? Steven Colbert would call this the "truthiness" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
Can't you see: conspiracy theory is not about logic, its about saving time! If you can jump to conclusions without any research, then you're already saving yourself a lot of time. If your theory isn't precise, then there's going to be a lot of others to "consult" with who will each come up with a better idea. Pick the better one of all, or continue to disagree, setup your websites, Youtube videos and publish books. Make it all look official.
Than again, with all this time spent on alternative theories, you aren't saving time. Everyone has to read your version. There's no conclusive ending. If the government is truly good at concocting a conspiracy, then shouldn't they have made one with only one solution to the question of who, what, when, why and how? If there's so many versions of what could have happened, then they probably aren't doing their jobs????
And then your marketing efforts are wasted. The public is confused with all the messages. This is when the truth is actually the time saver. Thanks NIST!
I think the impediment in this case is selling the service to customers and not that the boxes are an eyesore. If the service doesn't sell well AT&T will probably remove the boxes or upgrade the network to accommodate for smaller boxes. In either case, their PR department will lose. I guess it might end up selling well, but its easy as a virtual monopoly to force upgrades on its customers due to phasing out service. If they were selling enough access as it was, there should be no reason to upgrade right away. IMO, 90% of customers don't want more channels and interactive service. They just want TV to work and give them the channels they want.
A few years back I worked in sales for a large Cable company. They were one of the first to roll out the Microsoft based IPTV service. The marketing people thought it was a great idea and started plugging it away to customers. IMO, whatever market surveys they did were really poorly done. The cable company already had rolled out the Digital terminals and they were selling really well. I didn't even have to try. The company tried to market the IPTV service and people didn't think much of it and were confused. The market was really limited and no one bought it. It was phased out and the company really doesn't talk about it much.
I went on the AT&T site to look at this new and "exciting" feature. It really parallels all the problem employer had with the IPTV rollout. Its okay but I don't think customers will buy it unless they're compelled to by removing older service. I just suggest to people that really hate it to either en mass: 1) Call AT&T, tell them to cancel service unless they remove box. Follow through on cancellation. Local cable company will be more than happy to waive install charges. 2) Don't sign up for it. Make AT&T choke on their piece of buy. They have to throw it up and be made the fool for rolling this out.
Oh, and I dealt a lot with pissed off customers who had much smaller boxes than this AT&T one installed on their property. When it took 4 - 6 months to bury the darn things it usually meant cancellation of service and a claims court judgment in their favor. I dare not ask how much this will cost AT&T.
I've always had a problem with my unsolved Rubix-Cube puzzle. I think once I actually understand what you wrote, I might be able to solve the puzzle. Then again, peeling off the stickers and placing them in the correct location is a much more efficient way.
I don't know if this directly applies, but I live in the Vancouver B.C. area. There's a group of restaurants that are part of a locally-based cetifying program that the fish they bought are not endangered species and (I think) the type of fish served tends to focus on farmed fish. At the least, in this way you won't be ordering Shark shashimi etc. I don't know that there are any sushi restaurants that are part of the program. Some of the Japanese restaurants are still offering shark on the menu.
A close friend is a DJ. He uses the social networking sites, among other things, to promote his acts. He's not the only one doing it in the industry. He does get thousands of hits a day on his profile. A former GF was a bit of a wacko. Everyone that visited the site, knew of her reputation. Many months after they broke up, she was still posting I love You's on his social networking site. Now what if you don't have a crazy.
What if, and this does happen, you get a woman you slept with that claims you got her pregnant. She wants money. You want to take it to court or get testing done. You know it wasn't you. She goes on your profile and starts posting, don't go out with this guy. Gets you pregnant than leaves you. Even if its false, reputation ruined. Could claim in court but if you're running promotions for 3 or 4 gigs a week, your income is screwed until this gets fixed. There's bound to be a lot of people that believe you, that know you, but this is bad stuff.
Dare I suggest, that Nvidia is making a game console. This would seem to make sense based on the patent issue. The game consoles don't need to be x86 compatible. The PS3 certainly isn't. Or, at the least might not need SSE2, SSE3, compatible chipset, socket, etc. I seem to recall on the "Xbox 1" project, Nvidia had serious problems with MS trying to undercut their margins and asking for huge orders on unrealistic deadlines. Nvidia would basically corner the market until AMD got into the market as well. It might be the only way the companies would survive Intel making better GPUs. Sony and MS are both relying on the GPU makers for the graphics chips.
As well, Nvida has the expertise in writing drivers for their own stuff, has the general grpahics programming language in play. They could potentially program/make everything from the ground up.
If they aren't hire me as a marketing, consultant or PM please! And thankyou!;)
(my other post was intended as sarcastic, but I had this thought while writing it).
Nvidia isn't making a new CPU necessarily. They are making one of those All-in-One PCs like what ASUS are making with the EEE PC and the EEE Box.
For a long time, Nvidia has been making graphics cards with huge heat sinks, fans, boards and power supply connectors. Some of the cards require as much power as the rest of the desktop computer. Basically, they've been accustomizing their customers that all of their future products will be built in a similar way. They've also gained invaluable cooling experience. I think the next logical step is to take all this and make a computer.
Better question is, do the wives live just as long as the husbands? And what is their divorce rate? And if they split and couples generally split 50/50 since man is usually primary income earner, does each wife get 25% of the share. Or does each get 50%, leaving the man with nothing?
These researchers really don't have this all figured out. They need me to ask the important questions that are sure to boggle people's minds after reading these articles.
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I think like anything else, have the degree/accredation means nothing. If you really put enough work into it, anyone with a 'high enough' IQ can be a doctor, lawyer or MBA. It doesn't mean that you have the people skills, ability/talent or the intelligence to use the knowledge productively or beneficially afterwards. Some doctors choose to use the same diagnoses time after time if they don't know what their patients have. MBAs were repeatedly critized on the mini-Microsoft blog for their management strategies.
IBM is also doing a lot of contracting work. From what I've seen they are quite successful at it. I know, they haven't gone without their fare share of critique on Slashdot.
Its also a sign of changing times. There's a lot of traditional manufacturing that hasn't to some extent been outsourced but market saturation *and* lots of management problems are causing the BIG 4 automakers to close down plants galore in Canada and the US. (some might be going to Mexico?). We're probably going to have to figure out how to retool these places for other uses. That needs some creative MBAs!!!
IMO, I keep thinking I need to upgrade my computer. But, I bought an HP refurbed workstation Xeon 2.4 1 GB ECC PC 2700 RAM, USCSI HDD for $200. I upgraded the video card and RAM since buying it. I like it in the sense its fast enough for my needs and to me more importantly keeps it out of the landfill. Custom building, like Dells old business model is silly now. It was realistic when the PCs were $1000+ where Dell could realistically save you hundreds $$$$, but with cheaper quality PC components you can build a half decent system for under $500 that's equivalent to most Dells.
How will you build you Hackintosh today?
I'm expanding here to get some clarifications and I'm making a few leaping, uninformed statments here .....
But, if there are elements of the FBI gathering intelligence on domestic terrorists and a separate for international, then doesn't that mean, technically that that info could go on A-Space? And, wouldn't that also put Dept. Homeland Security in a conflicting state of interest since its under the umbrella of CIA and FBI (where the CIA isn't supposed to get domestic information)? Maybe under DHS it changed or maybe through compartmentalization of FBI?
Without knowing any specifics what-so-ever, technically the 9-11 attacks could only have been "stopped" if the FBI used its domestic collection of intelligence (the guys only wanting to fly but not land planes) with the CIA which would then relate that to international intelligence collection that would then pass it to the FBI to use domestically? If the intelligence was so darned classified would the CIA still act domestically or would it still have to forward it to the FBI? Or is it different if they dont get caught?
Maybe my ideas are crossing too many fences but as the policies are/were setup isn't there a huge problem with how the system is setup?
Since there's a lot less moving parts and no thick metal parts like hard-drives are the SSDs more Green-Friendly in the manufacturing phase and end-of-life to recycle? Since there's been a lot of consideration in the industry about environmental friendliness I through this might be something that should be brought up.
No, your employer will give you more work. Keep the hard drive in your computer!
I hint for the knowledge deprived: First Lady I'd Like to ....
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/30/is-america-ready-for-a-flilf/
Look up "News I'd like to F*#K" by Samatha Bee on The Daily Show. My favorite skit and show of why Bee is the best correspondent comedic talent on the show.
I read the first two sentences and stopped. You're right: reading is boring! ;)
Oops! I'm Canadian its (supposed) to work different here. Different structure, same result.
My bwidth is capped at 60 GB. I just signed up with my ISP because it was a week quicker and is cheaper and all in one bill. Next year, I'm cancelling and going with a far better provider. I don't hate my current provider, the other offers better peering, lower latency and really unlimited bandwidth.
You'd have to get into federal and not state politics. Comcast is nation-wide. Mayors and local politicans, though I'm sure would be more willing to cooperate, won't help a cent if they can't do anything. Its at the FCC, Senate and Congressman level.
I pay about $40 a month for an (unofficial) 60 GB. Highway robbery. They all use the same PR crap. 5 or 10 % of users use 90% of the bandwidth. So what if they do? They were advertising for the most part true-unlimited internet. What's changed?
iTunes, YouTUBE, and the other services you mention. If you've worked for a cable company before, you'll know that there are a TON of calls coming in to order movies, PPV, etc. If the cable company is publicly traded and is in multi-states or nation-wide and esp. in densely or highly populated stakes the revenue you'd loose would be tremendous.
The only way to win. The pocketbooks. Don't order PPV. Download as much as you can to the cap each month. Encourage others to do the same.
Put another way, the same public relations is starting to show up on cell phone service too: http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/28/rogers.iphone.data.plans/ lets see if you find this familiar:
"After a great deal of public focus, Canada's Rogers Wireless has revealed that, despite the scrutiny the company's data plans see, 95-percent of iPhone customers have used less than 10-percent of their data plan. The news comes after Rogers was blasted for not including unlimited data like with AT&T in the US, according to The Globe and Mail."
Oh yeah. Give the impression data is almost unlimited. Then when people aren't using enough, decrease the data that can be used. Why make it unlimited if nobody uses it? Then, say well since 5% of users use 90% of bandwidth (same argument with Cable/DSL providers), charge an absurd amount of money for over-use and throttle connections.
I've been wondering if this is practical. I remember that some people have been building houses with dirt on top and non-south facing windows. Sort of like some of the hobbit houses pictured here: http://images.google.ca/images?q=hobbit%20house&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi - perhaps too whimsical an answer here.
The living conditions in these houses tends to not require AC to cool the house even in warm climates in warm/hot seasons. I don't know if this is practical, but in theory the building should be cooler to begin with.
Yeah, but you're looking at % of pop. that *speaks* x language. I'd be willing to bet that the literacy rate, http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/socind/literacy.htm , for some of the countries that speak some of these languages is different.
An illiterate person can probably get away with using the web. And on illiteracy, consider too that if 15% of the world speaks Spanish but only 10% are literate, then it reduces the potential audience let alone those that can afford a computer. Heck, there are families in Canada and the US that cannot afford a computer and they are literate. Sadly enough.
And lets not forget that even if you are literate and speak a language well, it does not mean you can write it. Nigerian 411's being the prime example of this.
Beta Release ..... Final Version, what's the difference? This is Microsoft afterall! I have been a proud (but unregistered) Beta Tester for Microsoft for many, many, many years!
Wow, just wow! It was a freaking joke! I was just spinning the word "penetration tester" since it was part of the original question.
Haven't you seen other posts, with have wife/girlfriend .... you must be new here that are all moderated as funny? Guess not. Someone might just have modded wrong. Innocent mistake.
Conspiracy theorists tend to use "common sense" which defeats the logic, methods, evidence collection and theories of science. All these detailed schematics, computer simulations, engineers with Harvard and MIT degrees don't make any sense. Any oversimplification of the matter with numbers, facts and figures doesn't have to make *any* sense. If you know what happened, then that is irrefutible. No matter that there are others with conspiracy theories. Yours is always right. Who needs all that engineering stuff? Steven Colbert would call this the "truthiness" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
Can't you see: conspiracy theory is not about logic, its about saving time! If you can jump to conclusions without any research, then you're already saving yourself a lot of time. If your theory isn't precise, then there's going to be a lot of others to "consult" with who will each come up with a better idea. Pick the better one of all, or continue to disagree, setup your websites, Youtube videos and publish books. Make it all look official.
Than again, with all this time spent on alternative theories, you aren't saving time. Everyone has to read your version. There's no conclusive ending. If the government is truly good at concocting a conspiracy, then shouldn't they have made one with only one solution to the question of who, what, when, why and how? If there's so many versions of what could have happened, then they probably aren't doing their jobs????
And then your marketing efforts are wasted. The public is confused with all the messages. This is when the truth is actually the time saver. Thanks NIST!
This is Slashdot, so my comments won't be popular here:
Get a wife or a girlfriend and be *her* penetration tester. You might find a new joy in bringing your work home!
I think the impediment in this case is selling the service to customers and not that the boxes are an eyesore. If the service doesn't sell well AT&T will probably remove the boxes or upgrade the network to accommodate for smaller boxes. In either case, their PR department will lose. I guess it might end up selling well, but its easy as a virtual monopoly to force upgrades on its customers due to phasing out service. If they were selling enough access as it was, there should be no reason to upgrade right away. IMO, 90% of customers don't want more channels and interactive service. They just want TV to work and give them the channels they want.
A few years back I worked in sales for a large Cable company. They were one of the first to roll out the Microsoft based IPTV service. The marketing people thought it was a great idea and started plugging it away to customers. IMO, whatever market surveys they did were really poorly done. The cable company already had rolled out the Digital terminals and they were selling really well. I didn't even have to try. The company tried to market the IPTV service and people didn't think much of it and were confused. The market was really limited and no one bought it. It was phased out and the company really doesn't talk about it much.
I went on the AT&T site to look at this new and "exciting" feature. It really parallels all the problem employer had with the IPTV rollout. Its okay but I don't think customers will buy it unless they're compelled to by removing older service. I just suggest to people that really hate it to either en mass: 1) Call AT&T, tell them to cancel service unless they remove box. Follow through on cancellation. Local cable company will be more than happy to waive install charges. 2) Don't sign up for it. Make AT&T choke on their piece of buy. They have to throw it up and be made the fool for rolling this out.
Oh, and I dealt a lot with pissed off customers who had much smaller boxes than this AT&T one installed on their property. When it took 4 - 6 months to bury the darn things it usually meant cancellation of service and a claims court judgment in their favor. I dare not ask how much this will cost AT&T.
I've always had a problem with my unsolved Rubix-Cube puzzle. I think once I actually understand what you wrote, I might be able to solve the puzzle. Then again, peeling off the stickers and placing them in the correct location is a much more efficient way.
I don't know if this directly applies, but I live in the Vancouver B.C. area. There's a group of restaurants that are part of a locally-based cetifying program that the fish they bought are not endangered species and (I think) the type of fish served tends to focus on farmed fish. At the least, in this way you won't be ordering Shark shashimi etc. I don't know that there are any sushi restaurants that are part of the program. Some of the Japanese restaurants are still offering shark on the menu.
A close friend is a DJ. He uses the social networking sites, among other things, to promote his acts. He's not the only one doing it in the industry. He does get thousands of hits a day on his profile. A former GF was a bit of a wacko. Everyone that visited the site, knew of her reputation. Many months after they broke up, she was still posting I love You's on his social networking site. Now what if you don't have a crazy.
What if, and this does happen, you get a woman you slept with that claims you got her pregnant. She wants money. You want to take it to court or get testing done. You know it wasn't you. She goes on your profile and starts posting, don't go out with this guy. Gets you pregnant than leaves you. Even if its false, reputation ruined. Could claim in court but if you're running promotions for 3 or 4 gigs a week, your income is screwed until this gets fixed. There's bound to be a lot of people that believe you, that know you, but this is bad stuff.
This is Cowboy Neal. No you didn't post the story. I did under your name.
Dare I suggest, that Nvidia is making a game console. This would seem to make sense based on the patent issue. The game consoles don't need to be x86 compatible. The PS3 certainly isn't. Or, at the least might not need SSE2, SSE3, compatible chipset, socket, etc. I seem to recall on the "Xbox 1" project, Nvidia had serious problems with MS trying to undercut their margins and asking for huge orders on unrealistic deadlines. Nvidia would basically corner the market until AMD got into the market as well. It might be the only way the companies would survive Intel making better GPUs. Sony and MS are both relying on the GPU makers for the graphics chips.
As well, Nvida has the expertise in writing drivers for their own stuff, has the general grpahics programming language in play. They could potentially program/make everything from the ground up.
If they aren't hire me as a marketing, consultant or PM please! And thankyou! ;)
(my other post was intended as sarcastic, but I had this thought while writing it).
Nvidia isn't making a new CPU necessarily. They are making one of those All-in-One PCs like what ASUS are making with the EEE PC and the EEE Box.
For a long time, Nvidia has been making graphics cards with huge heat sinks, fans, boards and power supply connectors. Some of the cards require as much power as the rest of the desktop computer. Basically, they've been accustomizing their customers that all of their future products will be built in a similar way. They've also gained invaluable cooling experience. I think the next logical step is to take all this and make a computer.
Better question is, do the wives live just as long as the husbands? And what is their divorce rate? And if they split and couples generally split 50/50 since man is usually primary income earner, does each wife get 25% of the share. Or does each get 50%, leaving the man with nothing?
These researchers really don't have this all figured out. They need me to ask the important questions that are sure to boggle people's minds after reading these articles.
Peter: "What would you do if you had a million dollars?"
Lawrence: "Two chicks at the same time man!"