More like the government lost two weeks of productivity from its employees. And then there were the smaller businesses (coffee shops, dry cleaners, etc.) that didn't get their regular business since government employees were furloughed. When you have 800,000 people out of work and some other numbe rnot getting paid, people cut back on their spending. Will it pick up once government employees are paid for their time off? Probably, but it won't immediately show up (some may use it to pay back bills or penalties, some may save it in case this happens again in 3 months). Contractors that were furloughed are probably screwed out of the time they were off.
R, MATLAB, SAS, Python, there's a bunch of languages you can use, and a bunch of ways to store the data (RDBMS, NOSQL, Hadoop, etc.). It really comes down to what kind of access to the data you have, how it's presented, what other resources you have available to you, and what you want to do with it.
The reason gas prices are so high isn't because of low supply, it's because of high demand, from emerging markets (China and India in particular). While the amount of greenhouse gas used now by low-income countries isn't high, improving their electric grid and using renewable resources will not only decrease the rate of growth in CO2, but it will also be a good test bed for building a new grid. Eventually these new areas will ramp up demand and there will need to be something there.
My brother had already graduated college when he decided to enlist in the Navy. Maybe they paid part of his bills, I know they paid for his MBA. But that wasn't the reason he signed up in the first place.
I worked for the VA for a few years in IT. It wasn't for the money, I can tell you that, and while it was a great experience in how to write code, most of the other skills I used there were worthless outside (I'm not a coder anymore, so that's technically worthless too). But the other people I worked with there were very dedicated to their job.
Given the number of people who are actually innocent and wound up going to jail after intense questioning or through other faults in the legal system (some of which went to death row and have since been executed), I'd take the word of a law professor at an actual university over a no-name whatever-Bennett is.
Not sure what makes you think I'm trolling. I'm just saying that nuclear power has the potential to affect a larger area than just a backyard or small area. For others to be concerned about that is reasonable, no matter where they live.
I realize the US reactors are different than other models (and there are other designs that are even safer), but there are two pretty large areas on this planet that will be uninhabitable for some time due to contamination from nuclear plants.
It depends, at least in the US. T-Mobile is moving towards a "bring whatever device you want" approach, and Google has started directly selling their Nexus phones to consumers. I think this will start to improve once most carriers standardize on LTE-only and the phones are a bit more universal than they are now. With the Qualcomm CDMA patents out of the way, the barrier to entry to the Verizon network goes away and their phones will drop in price and more vendors will want to sell for the Verizon market.
For small stuff, yes. But we're now in a world where software and hardware is complex. Even in an environment like Apple where they have tight control over the hardware, there's variations between operating systems and their hardware offering that make it difficult for a company to write a single app that does it all. Then look at the PC world where it's pretty much a free for all.
I've worked in support organizations for 15 years. In a commercial environment where you can afford the staff, having a tiered approach works best - you have a help desk to gather and refine the questions and answer the small stuff, then work your way up to the engineers that wrote the code. The tough part of that is having a skilled enough help desk to know when to skip the canned questions and just forward a request on once you have the right information.
For organizations without those resources, you need to rely on the user base to be the help desk. Give them as much concise information as possible and frame the bug submission so that any and all needed data is in the report. Then it's up to the developer to give good information back to the user.
As an example, I had a problem with my laptop's trackpad going wonky. Ubuntu made it really easy to compile information about my system and submit it as a bug report, then open it for me so I can add any additional text I wanted. The answer I got back asked me to try a different kernel, and included well-documented links and information on how to get and install it. Just saying something like "yeah, go grab something out of backports" doesn't help the user if they have no idea what you're talking about.
Way back when I worked for a company that sold serial port boards for Sun systems. One of our customers was CSC doing *something* for the NSA. We had a bit of a back-and-forth with them since the board had an on-board 8k buffer. They were concerned about data being stored there.
In all seriousness, I'm surprised companies like Iron Mountain don't have a system security group to certifiy a system is wiped when it's retired. Maybe they do, but it would be a good business opportunity in the era of SOX and HIPAA.
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More like the government lost two weeks of productivity from its employees. And then there were the smaller businesses (coffee shops, dry cleaners, etc.) that didn't get their regular business since government employees were furloughed. When you have 800,000 people out of work and some other numbe rnot getting paid, people cut back on their spending. Will it pick up once government employees are paid for their time off? Probably, but it won't immediately show up (some may use it to pay back bills or penalties, some may save it in case this happens again in 3 months). Contractors that were furloughed are probably screwed out of the time they were off.
R, MATLAB, SAS, Python, there's a bunch of languages you can use, and a bunch of ways to store the data (RDBMS, NOSQL, Hadoop, etc.). It really comes down to what kind of access to the data you have, how it's presented, what other resources you have available to you, and what you want to do with it.
That high cost in other countries is primarily due to taxes. Maybe I should have said oil rather than gas.
The reason gas prices are so high isn't because of low supply, it's because of high demand, from emerging markets (China and India in particular). While the amount of greenhouse gas used now by low-income countries isn't high, improving their electric grid and using renewable resources will not only decrease the rate of growth in CO2, but it will also be a good test bed for building a new grid. Eventually these new areas will ramp up demand and there will need to be something there.
My brother had already graduated college when he decided to enlist in the Navy. Maybe they paid part of his bills, I know they paid for his MBA. But that wasn't the reason he signed up in the first place.
I worked for the VA for a few years in IT. It wasn't for the money, I can tell you that, and while it was a great experience in how to write code, most of the other skills I used there were worthless outside (I'm not a coder anymore, so that's technically worthless too). But the other people I worked with there were very dedicated to their job.
Active duty military who get paid very little to defend the country, and VA staff.
Handling what is potentially HIPAA-covered data? Much harder to do than just working with credit card information.
Hmm...I forgot this is Regent "University". I'd still take his opinion over a no-name.
Given the number of people who are actually innocent and wound up going to jail after intense questioning or through other faults in the legal system (some of which went to death row and have since been executed), I'd take the word of a law professor at an actual university over a no-name whatever-Bennett is.
Lydia's tea.
Not sure what makes you think I'm trolling. I'm just saying that nuclear power has the potential to affect a larger area than just a backyard or small area. For others to be concerned about that is reasonable, no matter where they live.
I realize the US reactors are different than other models (and there are other designs that are even safer), but there are two pretty large areas on this planet that will be uninhabitable for some time due to contamination from nuclear plants.
The 'backyard' for a nukulur disaster is in the hundreds of miles.
That's a pretty radical statement. Remember that this is still a gray area.
Sievert.
IIRC, Thomas Dolby came up with that one. Or at least made the technology to do polyphonic sound on a phone.
The Sun is sucking up sharks and spitting them back at us! Next week on SyFy: Sharkspotnado!
Hollywood accounting?
It depends, at least in the US. T-Mobile is moving towards a "bring whatever device you want" approach, and Google has started directly selling their Nexus phones to consumers. I think this will start to improve once most carriers standardize on LTE-only and the phones are a bit more universal than they are now. With the Qualcomm CDMA patents out of the way, the barrier to entry to the Verizon network goes away and their phones will drop in price and more vendors will want to sell for the Verizon market.
Actually it was private industry (Lockheed) that did that one.
No, they're just not elevated to positions of power. Wingnuts on the left are more often to be called out for their foolishness (e.g. Jenny McCarthy).
For small stuff, yes. But we're now in a world where software and hardware is complex. Even in an environment like Apple where they have tight control over the hardware, there's variations between operating systems and their hardware offering that make it difficult for a company to write a single app that does it all. Then look at the PC world where it's pretty much a free for all.
I've worked in support organizations for 15 years. In a commercial environment where you can afford the staff, having a tiered approach works best - you have a help desk to gather and refine the questions and answer the small stuff, then work your way up to the engineers that wrote the code. The tough part of that is having a skilled enough help desk to know when to skip the canned questions and just forward a request on once you have the right information.
For organizations without those resources, you need to rely on the user base to be the help desk. Give them as much concise information as possible and frame the bug submission so that any and all needed data is in the report. Then it's up to the developer to give good information back to the user.
As an example, I had a problem with my laptop's trackpad going wonky. Ubuntu made it really easy to compile information about my system and submit it as a bug report, then open it for me so I can add any additional text I wanted. The answer I got back asked me to try a different kernel, and included well-documented links and information on how to get and install it. Just saying something like "yeah, go grab something out of backports" doesn't help the user if they have no idea what you're talking about.
Way back when I worked for a company that sold serial port boards for Sun systems. One of our customers was CSC doing *something* for the NSA. We had a bit of a back-and-forth with them since the board had an on-board 8k buffer. They were concerned about data being stored there.
In all seriousness, I'm surprised companies like Iron Mountain don't have a system security group to certifiy a system is wiped when it's retired. Maybe they do, but it would be a good business opportunity in the era of SOX and HIPAA.
You mean I get to release my pent-up anger by destroying physical systems *and* get paid a boatload of money to do it? Where do I sign up?
Anecdotes don't prove your point. Even though there's an individual mandate in MA, small businesses haven't closed up shop.