If only it were that easy. I work at a school of 600+ students as the sole IT person and we went with Google Apps 2 years ago and it was probably the single best decision I ever made. The amount of work and stress not hosting an in-house e-mail server relieved was enormous. If you can have people dedicated just to the server stuff, ya, I see your point. But not every organization has the luxury of employing enough IT staff to adequately run all services in-house.
No, they still cannot access porn.com with a good web filter. Yes, the search may not necessarily be filtered for porn.com, but once they click on the website, the normal web filter will come back into play and the student will be blocked.
At first, WoW, much like most MMOs, was far from polished. I played since launch until last year (raid burnout), and there were definitely bugs galore.
Servers crashing out. A lot. For days.
Loot lag.
The boat working/not working.
Later on, nightly MC/ony/bwl runs while all the other guilds were causing massive raid lag.
I could go on, but WoW's being polished on release was about on par with other releases.
It's not like Google is trying to force anyone to do anything. They aren't trying to steal anything from anyone. No extortion. No blackmail. No motives at all really, except to sell ads by helping people avoid getting lost.
Except that they're making money off of me without my consent from which I reap no benefits.
I agree. As the school's IT guy, I also "block" sites like MySpace and Facebook. 95% of the students don't know how to get around the blocks or simply don't care enough. The other 5%? I consider it a fun challenge.
They the students learn networking skills, it also forces me to keep current with modern technology. In schools, it can be easy to just sit back and be complacent about things. Instead, it's a nice little rivalry among us. I block something, students figure out a way around it, I block again, rinse and repeat. All of us enjoy the challenge and no harm done.
Really, the main reason for blocking sites is a) parent pressure (they feel GREAT when they know we're doing filtering), b) prevent pornography (a 3rd grader's Google search for something innocuous resulted in porn once. the PTA loved that!), c) Force students to actually do work during lab time. Point c is certainly arguable, but from a parent & teacher perspective, none of the counter-arguments hold much water.
*yawn*
This is old news. It's already well-known that certain organisms, such as the C. Elegans, have genes which are switched on and off to prevent aging. Some of the causes of aging (mitochondria breaking down, cells life span (already saw a link about that above), and do forth) are already known. Then again, mice cells are known to be different than ours- where we can create immortal cells in mice via enzymatic telomerase action, that same doesn't necessarily work in humans.
Additionaly, in humans, we already know of aging genes. There are specific genetic diseases (can't recall their names off the top of my head) such as one which cause a 5 year's body to be that of a 30 year old's.
Really? I work in cancer research and would be interested to hear about this cure for cancer...BTW, there won't be one cure for cancer, but rather multiple cures for different kinds and degrees, but I digress.
So far researchers have identified the gene (p53) in humans that directs this behavior. Cancer is the result when p53 fails to work correctly.
Kind of, sort of. The failure of the p53 (an oncogene which can lead to cancer upon failure) is what in reality can play a role in the transformation to cancer. Not all cancers have a faulty p53 protein, and a failure of p53 does not necessarily resault in cancer (or more specifically, a malignant tumor). The general consesnus is it takes about 6 mutations to cause cancer, with p53 being just one of many candidates to fulfill that roll.
In my experiences, most people in the medical sciences do consider Ebola not very impressive for the very reason he listed: it kills off its host too fast. In evolutionary terms, thats not a very efficient way of living because as an ebola virus, you also die when you kill your host without a chance to reproduce.
I don't think he meant "morally" how they got it as you imply, but rather where the source of their income from a purely inverstor viewpoint...Besides, who's to say he's from what country, being a coward and all
Couldn't you just check out the router server statistics to see that more than your current roomates or whomever is supossed to be using the network is on it? I know mine lists all the users. Granted, it won't actually stop them, though you'll at least know somebody else is stealing your bandwidth and try to hunt them down.
An important thing to remember is that this "junk DNA" conssists of one codon, over and over and over. I can't remember what it is exactly, but imagine its CGA for a moment. For the introns (the useless parts), this CGA strand is done over and over and over. Also, it is these introns that are used in the PCR reaction to multiply the introns and those introns are used for DNA fingerprinting, contrary to prior belief. Also, I forgot the details, but I remember reading somewhere that RNA cuts out these introns somehow and its the RNA that is becoming popular for studying the genome to cut away all that crap.
yea, but figure in the million and millions that are made otherwise, and that $12,000 is insignifact. I hate record industry as much as anybody else here, but still pointless to make specious arguments
Not really...Those non-competitive clauses are usually not as broad as MS would lead to you to believe and aren't the easiest in the world to enforce. Plus, one year is very much standard for work like that or pretty much any professional job where you could give "trade secrets" to another company. That, though, is the main reason behing the 1 year clause...They don't want you going over to Apple and using MS's ideas or stealing their customers. In other lines of work, I've found they won't harass you as long as you stay away from their intellectual property and customers.
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If only it were that easy. I work at a school of 600+ students as the sole IT person and we went with Google Apps 2 years ago and it was probably the single best decision I ever made. The amount of work and stress not hosting an in-house e-mail server relieved was enormous. If you can have people dedicated just to the server stuff, ya, I see your point. But not every organization has the luxury of employing enough IT staff to adequately run all services in-house.
No, they still cannot access porn.com with a good web filter. Yes, the search may not necessarily be filtered for porn.com, but once they click on the website, the normal web filter will come back into play and the student will be blocked.
At first, WoW, much like most MMOs, was far from polished. I played since launch until last year (raid burnout), and there were definitely bugs galore. Servers crashing out. A lot. For days. Loot lag. The boat working/not working. Later on, nightly MC/ony/bwl runs while all the other guilds were causing massive raid lag. I could go on, but WoW's being polished on release was about on par with other releases.
It's not like Google is trying to force anyone to do anything. They aren't trying to steal anything from anyone. No extortion. No blackmail. No motives at all really, except to sell ads by helping people avoid getting lost. Except that they're making money off of me without my consent from which I reap no benefits.
I agree. As the school's IT guy, I also "block" sites like MySpace and Facebook. 95% of the students don't know how to get around the blocks or simply don't care enough. The other 5%? I consider it a fun challenge. They the students learn networking skills, it also forces me to keep current with modern technology. In schools, it can be easy to just sit back and be complacent about things. Instead, it's a nice little rivalry among us. I block something, students figure out a way around it, I block again, rinse and repeat. All of us enjoy the challenge and no harm done. Really, the main reason for blocking sites is a) parent pressure (they feel GREAT when they know we're doing filtering), b) prevent pornography (a 3rd grader's Google search for something innocuous resulted in porn once. the PTA loved that!), c) Force students to actually do work during lab time. Point c is certainly arguable, but from a parent & teacher perspective, none of the counter-arguments hold much water.
*yawn* This is old news. It's already well-known that certain organisms, such as the C. Elegans, have genes which are switched on and off to prevent aging. Some of the causes of aging (mitochondria breaking down, cells life span (already saw a link about that above), and do forth) are already known. Then again, mice cells are known to be different than ours- where we can create immortal cells in mice via enzymatic telomerase action, that same doesn't necessarily work in humans. Additionaly, in humans, we already know of aging genes. There are specific genetic diseases (can't recall their names off the top of my head) such as one which cause a 5 year's body to be that of a 30 year old's.
Really? I work in cancer research and would be interested to hear about this cure for cancer...BTW, there won't be one cure for cancer, but rather multiple cures for different kinds and degrees, but I digress.
So far researchers have identified the gene (p53) in humans that directs this behavior. Cancer is the result when p53 fails to work correctly. Kind of, sort of. The failure of the p53 (an oncogene which can lead to cancer upon failure) is what in reality can play a role in the transformation to cancer. Not all cancers have a faulty p53 protein, and a failure of p53 does not necessarily resault in cancer (or more specifically, a malignant tumor). The general consesnus is it takes about 6 mutations to cause cancer, with p53 being just one of many candidates to fulfill that roll.
In my experiences, most people in the medical sciences do consider Ebola not very impressive for the very reason he listed: it kills off its host too fast. In evolutionary terms, thats not a very efficient way of living because as an ebola virus, you also die when you kill your host without a chance to reproduce.
True, but the implication was there, namely because the AC didn't even name his own country.
I don't think he meant "morally" how they got it as you imply, but rather where the source of their income from a purely inverstor viewpoint...Besides, who's to say he's from what country, being a coward and all
Couldn't you just check out the router server statistics to see that more than your current roomates or whomever is supossed to be using the network is on it? I know mine lists all the users. Granted, it won't actually stop them, though you'll at least know somebody else is stealing your bandwidth and try to hunt them down.
An important thing to remember is that this "junk DNA" conssists of one codon, over and over and over. I can't remember what it is exactly, but imagine its CGA for a moment. For the introns (the useless parts), this CGA strand is done over and over and over. Also, it is these introns that are used in the PCR reaction to multiply the introns and those introns are used for DNA fingerprinting, contrary to prior belief. Also, I forgot the details, but I remember reading somewhere that RNA cuts out these introns somehow and its the RNA that is becoming popular for studying the genome to cut away all that crap.
yea, but figure in the million and millions that are made otherwise, and that $12,000 is insignifact. I hate record industry as much as anybody else here, but still pointless to make specious arguments
As much as I hate the RIAA, his life savings makes up about .00000001% of that $13.
Not really...Those non-competitive clauses are usually not as broad as MS would lead to you to believe and aren't the easiest in the world to enforce. Plus, one year is very much standard for work like that or pretty much any professional job where you could give "trade secrets" to another company. That, though, is the main reason behing the 1 year clause...They don't want you going over to Apple and using MS's ideas or stealing their customers. In other lines of work, I've found they won't harass you as long as you stay away from their intellectual property and customers.