I don't disagree that we are moving towards an ideas economy (Apple develops the iPad, send it to be China to be manufactured, products come back here), but its not like manufacturing its dead.
Perhaps the S3 isnt for you. But it is for me - I have a HDTV and am missing that DVR funtionality. My cable company will charge me something around $15/mo to rent an HD DVR from them, and since I already own an S2, the service on a new box would be $6.95/mo+CC fees ($1.99/mo ea. IIRC), so a total of $11/mo. I dont expect to make my money back, but at least I dont have to deal with that shit SARA software from SA/Cisco. And Cox doesnt have an "HD Fee" for basic HD channels (ESPN, Discovery, etc).
I'll see how long the initial capacity lasts, and then maybe replace the 160GB drive with a $99 500GB drive later.
I do like managed copy (even though I think its useless because AACS is busted anyways), but the idea of a central server that would register and track these copies is a bad idea for consumers. It assumes you have internet access at the same place you want to watch the managed copy, as well as providing a mechanism for the movie industry to come in and see the volume of managed copies being used and say, "Well, we need to monitize this activity," and then now you have your pay-per-view system that the industry longs for. $2.99 for every time you create or possibly even watch a managed copy sounds good to them I'm sure.
Why not just let users keep using user@isp.net and just tweak gmail to use that as the primary email address instead of user@gmail.coml. If ISPs are paying for it, who cares about how many gmail addresses people see and just take the money and run.
I can deal with texting at places like a rock concert or anywhere else that if I tried to make a call I wouldn't be able to hear a damn thing, or in places where its not appropriate to make a phone call (though some might consider the taps of your fingers on the keypad only slightly less annoying than you making a call right there). The only other useful situation is broadcasting - when you want to send a message or note to more than a few people at a time. Tell 10 of your friends you're having a party or something.
Otherwise it just seems to me that its an anti-social device. Instead of talking to someone you're sending one way messages.
Actually I'd expect the next GH to cost the same, or maybe even less, but come with no more than 15 songs. Everything else is bought online. Why? Because they can get more money out of you that way. Its like the $50 printer and $30 ink cartridges.
My current boss does a good job of halfassing both. He knows some technical stuff and still can lead the team pretty well. He always comes to us for the uber:technical work. But at least he knows when its over his head and dishes it off to one of us. Our team has won many awards in the past few years, including one a month ago from Oracle. So our team is very sharp, and he has confidence in us. It works very well. I wish all our IT teams would work as well (our group isn't even in IT, we're in Engineering).
My biggest headache at work is the nontechnical people who are mid level managers in the IT department. Some of them come from Finance, others from other non-technical departments in the company.
So what do they do? Instead of running a team like most normal managers they have to meddle to prove their worth and validate their existance. So they do dumb shit like randomly reassign staff, change priorities every two months, and other PHB-style behaviors. They have no technical competancy so they cant help out in the work, so they overcompensate and do dumb stuff.
I would have hoped that these types of people would have filtered out of the IT department by natural attrition (new companies, etc), but they havent and it bothers me.
I thought I remember a while ago about some search engine using intelligence to ignore hidden text (text with the same or a similar color as the background). Of course the easy work around for that is to use an image for your background and then that may fool the bot, but who knows, they could code to accomidate that too.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure you'd get banned from the search engines for using such tactics.
I'd disagree that it should stop. The real issue the ISP needs to know how to deal with is how are they going to add capacity in a heartbeat.
Do they have agreements with tier 1 providers to add capacity when needed? Do they have some dark fiber installed from their HQ to a local NOC?
I got left in the lurch once when it came to my ISP and undercapacity. We had two or three T3s and they were going to install another, but something happened and the installation got delayed for 90 days or something, and it was the slowest time ever during peak hours - 1.5Mb/s connections performed at 200kb/s.
As a software developer outside of the IT department (I'm under direction of the Engineering group), I get this all the time. I get the run around, exclusion from important meetings, no say in things I have a large stake in, put at the bottom of the priority queue, and sometimes even people working to throw roadblocks in my way.
I've always been a fan of decentralized IT - a core group working to "keep the lights on" and seperate groups providing services embedded in the groups they're providing services to, responsible to the managers of the groups who use the tools. Meetings still happen with the needed staff, but someone is a few cubes down the hall or at least on the same floor to answer questions and get feedback.
My issue is that we've always had unchecked violence, but nudity and profanity were closely kept under wraps. To me it was logically inconsistent. If you want to protect the children, protect them from violence as well as nudity and language. Dont half ass it.
If nothing else, the FCC is just being consistent here. Which is an improvement.
Work with ISPs in the US, Canada and Europe to take zombied computers offline. They'll get a letter or phone call telling them that their computer was part of a zombie network that was attacking DHS or whoever, and that they wont be allowed back online until their computer is cleaned. Most people only have one choice for broadband (DSL or Cable), and they'll have to go back to dialup (where they wont be much of a threat in terms of dDOS) if they dont get their act together.
Its like when a cop pulls you over for having an unsafe vehicle, its about time that ISPs start patrolling their userbase and send letters/call their users to notify them of their infection.
The ESRB made the same mistake when they went after bloggers who talked about a shirt from some online store that said "Your mom, rated E for Everyone", they eventually issued an appology to the bloggers they harassed. Somehow I doubt Apple would ever say they were sorry to bloggers.
From what I've read, Nintendo is having supply chain issues - that is they physically are having problems getting consoles to the big box stores. And when you look at the issues present, it seems about the only explanation - the hardware isnt too advanced to be having yield issues, manufacturing capacity is there, its just they cant get the boats fast enough here from China or whereever its made.
They're not restricting supply intentionally - they could probably sell 2M+ this season if they had the stock to sell. But there is no stock.
Lucky you, I've been to two Targets, an EB and BB this weekend (yesterday, today) and no Wii accessories. I've seen the remote grips and Wii point cards, but no acessories.
The launch was 450,000 units. NoA says they're going to be shipping 250,000 units per week after until the end of the year. So we might see units on the shelf the week before Christmas (before all the procrastinators get in gear).
And even when you get the Wii, the accessories are in short supply - I've been looking all week and nothing. No nunchucks, no classic controllers, no component cables, nothing. I did manage to get a second Wiimote, but nothing else.
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Nate Silver would like a word with you.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/02/us-manufacturing-is-not-dead.html
I don't disagree that we are moving towards an ideas economy (Apple develops the iPad, send it to be China to be manufactured, products come back here), but its not like manufacturing its dead.
What threats? That a lady in San Diego with the cheese and ice packs? It was all a load of bullshit.
Your government, working to scare the shit out of you since 9/11.
Perhaps the S3 isnt for you. But it is for me - I have a HDTV and am missing that DVR funtionality. My cable company will charge me something around $15/mo to rent an HD DVR from them, and since I already own an S2, the service on a new box would be $6.95/mo+CC fees ($1.99/mo ea. IIRC), so a total of $11/mo. I dont expect to make my money back, but at least I dont have to deal with that shit SARA software from SA/Cisco. And Cox doesnt have an "HD Fee" for basic HD channels (ESPN, Discovery, etc).
I'll see how long the initial capacity lasts, and then maybe replace the 160GB drive with a $99 500GB drive later.
No you weren't. My parents weren't even awake and I'd be downstairs watching it.
I do like managed copy (even though I think its useless because AACS is busted anyways), but the idea of a central server that would register and track these copies is a bad idea for consumers. It assumes you have internet access at the same place you want to watch the managed copy, as well as providing a mechanism for the movie industry to come in and see the volume of managed copies being used and say, "Well, we need to monitize this activity," and then now you have your pay-per-view system that the industry longs for. $2.99 for every time you create or possibly even watch a managed copy sounds good to them I'm sure.
Why not just let users keep using user@isp.net and just tweak gmail to use that as the primary email address instead of user@gmail.coml. If ISPs are paying for it, who cares about how many gmail addresses people see and just take the money and run.
I can deal with texting at places like a rock concert or anywhere else that if I tried to make a call I wouldn't be able to hear a damn thing, or in places where its not appropriate to make a phone call (though some might consider the taps of your fingers on the keypad only slightly less annoying than you making a call right there). The only other useful situation is broadcasting - when you want to send a message or note to more than a few people at a time. Tell 10 of your friends you're having a party or something.
Otherwise it just seems to me that its an anti-social device. Instead of talking to someone you're sending one way messages.
Actually I'd expect the next GH to cost the same, or maybe even less, but come with no more than 15 songs. Everything else is bought online. Why? Because they can get more money out of you that way. Its like the $50 printer and $30 ink cartridges.
Signed,
Yankees fan
PS Have fun blowing up more innocuous devices because you think they're bombs
Yea, but you're forgetting how close Quincy is to The Gorge.
My current boss does a good job of halfassing both. He knows some technical stuff and still can lead the team pretty well. He always comes to us for the uber:technical work. But at least he knows when its over his head and dishes it off to one of us. Our team has won many awards in the past few years, including one a month ago from Oracle. So our team is very sharp, and he has confidence in us. It works very well. I wish all our IT teams would work as well (our group isn't even in IT, we're in Engineering).
My biggest headache at work is the nontechnical people who are mid level managers in the IT department. Some of them come from Finance, others from other non-technical departments in the company.
So what do they do? Instead of running a team like most normal managers they have to meddle to prove their worth and validate their existance. So they do dumb shit like randomly reassign staff, change priorities every two months, and other PHB-style behaviors. They have no technical competancy so they cant help out in the work, so they overcompensate and do dumb stuff.
I would have hoped that these types of people would have filtered out of the IT department by natural attrition (new companies, etc), but they havent and it bothers me.
Exactly what I thought. Either that or the name of 10.6.
I thought I remember a while ago about some search engine using intelligence to ignore hidden text (text with the same or a similar color as the background). Of course the easy work around for that is to use an image for your background and then that may fool the bot, but who knows, they could code to accomidate that too.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure you'd get banned from the search engines for using such tactics.
We got their money because they're on a subscription. So we really dont care what they do. Random PR speak about how great our stuff is anyways.
I'd disagree that it should stop. The real issue the ISP needs to know how to deal with is how are they going to add capacity in a heartbeat.
Do they have agreements with tier 1 providers to add capacity when needed? Do they have some dark fiber installed from their HQ to a local NOC?
I got left in the lurch once when it came to my ISP and undercapacity. We had two or three T3s and they were going to install another, but something happened and the installation got delayed for 90 days or something, and it was the slowest time ever during peak hours - 1.5Mb/s connections performed at 200kb/s.
As a software developer outside of the IT department (I'm under direction of the Engineering group), I get this all the time. I get the run around, exclusion from important meetings, no say in things I have a large stake in, put at the bottom of the priority queue, and sometimes even people working to throw roadblocks in my way.
I've always been a fan of decentralized IT - a core group working to "keep the lights on" and seperate groups providing services embedded in the groups they're providing services to, responsible to the managers of the groups who use the tools. Meetings still happen with the needed staff, but someone is a few cubes down the hall or at least on the same floor to answer questions and get feedback.
My issue is that we've always had unchecked violence, but nudity and profanity were closely kept under wraps. To me it was logically inconsistent. If you want to protect the children, protect them from violence as well as nudity and language. Dont half ass it.
If nothing else, the FCC is just being consistent here. Which is an improvement.
Work with ISPs in the US, Canada and Europe to take zombied computers offline. They'll get a letter or phone call telling them that their computer was part of a zombie network that was attacking DHS or whoever, and that they wont be allowed back online until their computer is cleaned. Most people only have one choice for broadband (DSL or Cable), and they'll have to go back to dialup (where they wont be much of a threat in terms of dDOS) if they dont get their act together.
Its like when a cop pulls you over for having an unsafe vehicle, its about time that ISPs start patrolling their userbase and send letters/call their users to notify them of their infection.
The ESRB made the same mistake when they went after bloggers who talked about a shirt from some online store that said "Your mom, rated E for Everyone", they eventually issued an appology to the bloggers they harassed. Somehow I doubt Apple would ever say they were sorry to bloggers.
I believe Autodesk (San Rafael, CA) has their own island in Second Life. Companies (not just people) are jumping on the SL bandwagon.
Last I checked it is disruptive now. One 4p server hosting 20VMs. Saving power, saving space, etc.
From what I've read, Nintendo is having supply chain issues - that is they physically are having problems getting consoles to the big box stores. And when you look at the issues present, it seems about the only explanation - the hardware isnt too advanced to be having yield issues, manufacturing capacity is there, its just they cant get the boats fast enough here from China or whereever its made.
They're not restricting supply intentionally - they could probably sell 2M+ this season if they had the stock to sell. But there is no stock.
Lucky you, I've been to two Targets, an EB and BB this weekend (yesterday, today) and no Wii accessories. I've seen the remote grips and Wii point cards, but no acessories.
The launch was 450,000 units. NoA says they're going to be shipping 250,000 units per week after until the end of the year. So we might see units on the shelf the week before Christmas (before all the procrastinators get in gear).
And even when you get the Wii, the accessories are in short supply - I've been looking all week and nothing. No nunchucks, no classic controllers, no component cables, nothing. I did manage to get a second Wiimote, but nothing else.