Plenty of commercial companies would be happy to offer flights to Mars if the US government was to pay them to do so; after all, the spaceships which flew to the Moon were all built by commercial companies.
And they'd probably find cheaper methods of doing it than NASA would, if they weren't offered open-ended cost-plus contracts.
And I'm sure their success/defect rate would match commercial projects as well.
You're missing the point. The whole reason they're doing this is so they have multiple competing vendors for services, instead of just a single monopolistic contractor.
Only if that vendor provides jobs to the voters of the senator on the "steering" committee.
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The profit motive also encourages them to A: ship product B: on time C: on budget D: that meets the customer's needs. NASA seems to have trouble with all four of those.
Yeah, all companies ship everything on time, under budget, without defects and a product that the customer actually wants.
I invite you to study the concept of ownership. If I pay $600 for a piece of hardware, I have every right to do whatever I want with it.Apple even slightly get involved. This 'walled garden' concept is harmful to consumers and developers alike.
Note that you only bought a right-to-use-license that came with the hardware.
A Apple charges me around $100 each year to upgrade my G4 Mac from 10.3 to 10.4 to 10.5, whereas Microsoft charged me *nothing* to upgrade from XP to XP-SP1 to SP2 to SP3.
You're a little confused. Apple didn't charge you for 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.5, 10.3.6, 10.3.7, 10.3.8 & 10.3.9. (aka service packs)
You bought 10.4 just as you bought XP. And you bought 10.5 just as you bought Vista.
It's absurd to know that hundreds of open source engineers aren't going to pop out of the general population to take up the slack if Oracle decides to take Java proprietary?
One can infer roughly how Comcast really views their customers by observing their ads (i.e. the customer IS the turtle: slow, ignorant, stupid and docile).
Don't forget the ones were the customers are drugged zombies "singing" monotone songs about how great Comcast is.
You are so eager to let something that does not by nature have to be centrally controlled, and coordinated - so the next time you go to a hospital your posterior is on a $600 bed pan?
You mean like the current examples in the health industry like $100 aspirin?
Sure, TMobile is cheaper, but the coverage sucks here, so its not worth it for most people. My company just made the painful switch from TMobile to AT&T for the coverage reason.
Interesting to note that when my ATT using friends have coverage issues, I always have full signal on T-Mobile.
So since we are now in the business of moving information around, what need is there for IT? Is he kidding
More like companies have learned that people with IT degrees are about preventing information flow. To get the new systems built they now look to engineering degrees.
And in contrast, I worked at a company where all new employees were given the default password of "welcome." Needless to say, over time I learned that most employees never bothered to change that password.
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Plenty of commercial companies would be happy to offer flights to Mars if the US government was to pay them to do so; after all, the spaceships which flew to the Moon were all built by commercial companies.
And they'd probably find cheaper methods of doing it than NASA would, if they weren't offered open-ended cost-plus contracts.
And I'm sure their success/defect rate would match commercial projects as well.
You're missing the point. The whole reason they're doing this is so they have multiple competing vendors for services, instead of just a single monopolistic contractor.
Only if that vendor provides jobs to the voters of the senator on the "steering" committee.
The profit motive also encourages them to A: ship product B: on time C: on budget D: that meets the customer's needs. NASA seems to have trouble with all four of those.
Yeah, all companies ship everything on time, under budget, without defects and a product that the customer actually wants.
That's only because your country isn't as good at outsourcing as America, land of the free, is.
Apparently you have never had to rely on outsourced IT services.
Imagine having to call the support desk to restart the servers mid launch.
I invite you to study the concept of ownership. If I pay $600 for a piece of hardware, I have every right to do whatever I want with it.Apple even slightly get involved. This 'walled garden' concept is harmful to consumers and developers alike.
Note that you only bought a right-to-use-license that came with the hardware.
2. AT&T's contract with apple explicitly states they must be contacted when a VoIP app is being approved.
Really? Where is this contract posted? URL please?
A Apple charges me around $100 each year to upgrade my G4 Mac from 10.3 to 10.4 to 10.5, whereas Microsoft charged me *nothing* to upgrade from XP to XP-SP1 to SP2 to SP3.
You're a little confused. Apple didn't charge you for 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.5, 10.3.6, 10.3.7, 10.3.8 & 10.3.9. (aka service packs)
You bought 10.4 just as you bought XP. And you bought 10.5 just as you bought Vista.
Sun has hundreds of engineers working on Java.
It's absurd to know that hundreds of open source engineers aren't going to pop out of the general population to take up the slack if Oracle decides to take Java proprietary?
How about changing Linux to use a less restrictive license?
There are very few non Sun contributors to Java.
If Oracle decides to put all future resources and features into a closed version, how long do you expect the open version to be able to keep up?
Fuck the immigrants. This is MY country, not theirs. Let them fix their own failed states south of the border.
Especially when they aren't "immigrants"
And the other police directives:
One can infer roughly how Comcast really views their customers by observing their ads (i.e. the customer IS the turtle: slow, ignorant, stupid and docile).
Don't forget the ones were the customers are drugged zombies "singing" monotone songs about how great Comcast is.
and photos of the judge having sex with a "Ticke me Elmo" doll.
Well, if you like the US Postal Service, you'll LOVE USG Broadband!
All of my mail has reached it's destination.
Can't say the same for UPS or FedEx.
You are so eager to let something that does not by nature have to be centrally controlled, and coordinated - so the next time you go to a hospital your posterior is on a $600 bed pan?
You mean like the current examples in the health industry like $100 aspirin?
Sure, TMobile is cheaper, but the coverage sucks here, so its not worth it for most people. My company just made the painful switch from TMobile to AT&T for the coverage reason.
Interesting to note that when my ATT using friends have coverage issues, I always have full signal on T-Mobile.
I'm using a Mac Pro that is ... six years old and it's still working damn well.
That's pretty impressive since the first Mac Pro tower only shipped in the fall of 2006 barely 3 years ago.
More likely you have a Power Mac G4 tower from 6 years ago.
When a storm knocks out the electricity and the traffic lights stop working, I've always seen everyone obeying the rules.
You must live in fantasy land. Most people don't even know what to do when power goes out at an intersection. They all try to go at the same time.
Or when corporations run the government.
So since we are now in the business of moving information around, what need is there for IT? Is he kidding
More like companies have learned that people with IT degrees are about preventing information flow. To get the new systems built they now look to engineering degrees.
And in contrast, I worked at a company where all new employees were given the default password of "welcome." Needless to say, over time I learned that most employees never bothered to change that password.
you could just scan your finger.
And when someone decides to cut your finger off?
Don't you find it good that a company in CALIFORNIA manages to turn a profit on new technology?
$1mil "profit" after a $465mil "loan" is a profit?
Yeah, they can pay off the "loan" in 464 years.