the larger the organization the harder it is to change. it is why large government projects fail so hard. How many tries did it take the FBI to update it's systems?
I know one company(80 people) that tried for 5 years to find a fairly simple path to upgrade obsolete IBM server. they still haven't done so. and still connect to the server through special terminal programs.(IBM used an IBM only terminal emulator which they no longer have source code for).
The company i currently work for(20 people) did an ERP switch. the actual data transfer went mostly painlessly. training the users in the much simpler and effective UI took a month of dedicated training, and 6 months of answering "how do I" questions. every once in a while those questions still appear but that is normal.
Now image trying that with a couple of thousand employees, and you have a nightmare.
The writer was envisioning a start trek style utopia where money really isn't needed. As you build once, work out the bugs, and forward the plans on to a machine which then can build an unlimited number.
only the plans matter. not production. not money. the big problem with such scenario is base resource distribution. that is where wealth comes into play for our existing system. we work not because we want to but because it is the way to acquire the pieces we need. but someone will still have go cut and shape trees into lumber, mine the various ores, grow the food. while machines can assist us with those tasks they will still have to be done by hand. and who is to determine how much of each are you allowed for.
here is the trick. you put them on the internet so that you can cheap out on labor.
This way you can hire on an hourly rate the programmers who make adjustments. I know a major golf equipment manufacturer, whose systems are on the net . now there is a VPN, and an air gap(the local repair technician has to physically plug the cable into the network port for updates)
However the guys who do the programing, come out to the job site for initial setup and testing, once you are up to speed. future errors are debugged over the net.
SCADA on the internet is almost a requirement. it is cheaper to hire out help on an as needed basis than paying some guy to sit on his ass 90% of the time.
While you are correct in 2004 apple was shipping PowerPC CPU's.
Aple and osx has made not one but two processor arch changes in the last year. IOS is basically a sandboxxed version of osx running a touchUI. Apple does drop support for older hardware however my 2009 macbook is running mavericks just fine. That's five years and 4 OS revisions.
Just don't use google + and everyone in a while check the security settings o that it stays locked down.
google is just merging all of it's products to one username/password combo. instead of having an account with youLube, Docs, mail, etcs, it is google +.
It will make adding features easier on the backend. the down side is I don't use social networking, of course since I have an iPhone I can't use google contacts anyways.
unlike wall street, crowd funding is real investing. you are putting money into real people and real projects.
there is a good chance that those projects will fail. there is no money back guarantee.
Wall street however unless you are in the IPO you are not handing money over to a company you are just passing it to/from other investors. 99.9999999999% of the time had gotten it the same way. if I buy 1000 shares of company xzy at $10 a share the company doesn't get a check for $10,000. the company doesn't see any money from wall street directly after the IPO. when you invest in wall street you invest in the companies books not products.
Take a look at Syria. There are no US troops there and they are slaughtering themselves just fine. Iraq still has weekly car bombings. Hell in Iraq the majority of all deaths were not from coalition troops but from Muslim fighters killing everyone who didn't agree with them.
Personally I say we retreat back to north america maybe keep one or two bases open and wait in 20 years the world will descend into major war. For as war hungry as the USA has been theUSA has been the person everyone can hate equally.
Of course I also believe in letting Iran have nukes. Iran is stupid enough to use them. Most likely against Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.
As the other poster stated. targeted ads are always failures.
Once a year I hit up all the major car companies to look at the new models. I go to every one to see the cars I can't afford in my dreams down to potential cars. For the next 2 months I see nothing but ads for cars that I really don't want to buy.
I shop for christmas gifts, all I see is ads for stuff I either bought, or ignored as it wasn't what I wanted.
I have not once seen a target ad that was actually useful.
60 years ago the majority of women were not allowed to work.
Only 96 years ago were women even counted as citizens who could vote.
By doubling the potentional work force. Wages stagnated. Of course I would rather live in a world were people are equal rather than one were one group thinks there better based on stupid shit like skin color or gender.
Nope the USA let capitalism get in the way. unrestricted capitalism. Just look at health insurance. it isn't based on good facts, but on the companies we work for providing information.
besides lastly the USA is doing something else. trying to commercialize space travel. to push the cost of launching onto people who have an interest in lowering said costs greatly.
Not only that but the USA also realizes that space is a pain in the ass. The few resources present are useful but hardly justify the short term let alone long term costs. In space you have to take everything with you. including water and oxygen. normally you can find those on earth just about anywhere you need to go. Even nuclear subs have it easy compared to space travel. while oxygen in gaseous form is hard to find under water, it can easily be made, from the abundance of water.
The moon, mars, only have small quantities of frozen water. therefore if you want a colony of any decent size you literally have to ship those locations water on a continuous basis. water that can only come from earth.
Water is very hard to ship, and with a cost of thousands of dollars a pound very expensive to ship into space.
The ACA isn't a tax. it is mandating health insurance with preset coverage minimums and limits. you can't pay $50 a month for benefits that don't actually cover you when you go to use them.
the ACA only fines you "tax" if you don't have it or the companies don't have enough.
also religious institutions have no problem giving out viagra to men. it is just female drugs that present problems.
I moved a year ago and I have yet to setup !y desk and desktop. My laptop plays the games I want it to my tablet serves me reading material every where else. Literally my laptop sits on an end table next to the couch. I use 802.11n 5 GHz
All Ireally need is a personal dropbox cloud to transport files without going across the net. But I don't do large files so drop box isn't bad.
randomly sends data to the network card without going through the CPU first.?
My 2009 macbook randomly wakes up and processes some data for about 5 seconds and shuts off.
two reinstalls, and I still can't track it down. fortunately I just turn off the wifi when I put the machine to sleep. it still does it, but at least I know it isn't sending anything to anyone.
not the federal the county government. and yes I bet that is legit for the initial test.
They were probably given the brine for free so the company wouldn't have to dispose of it legally. which would also cost a couple of thousand of dollars.
First your start small your company is cute, adorable, maybe with a few good tricks.
It then evolves into a larger stronger version, it can push a few people around and it gets pushed around occasionally but it can weather the fights usually okay. This is where most companies stop.
then it usually merges with other companies either by force or choice,(a select few can just grow this big) you have a very large international client base, you buy and sell politicians on the used lawyer lots, etc.
Next up you hire private armies to help enforce your point of view. Only a few have become this large as government get jealous and pushes back. see East India Trading company for details.
Then you are a government. a jealous, large beast made up with lawyers, bureaucrats who hold the real power of the group. the leadership likes to think they are in charge but the leadership comes and goes the bureaucrats remain forever
Except that the ATF program was started in 2007. It was only expanded by Obama,
Obama has done enough shit wrong stop using lies to expand it.
Besides if you think McCain or Romney would have made a different choice you are an idiot. Obama is following the standard conservative agenda and yes obamacare is included. Look up romneycare first.
that's just it while I want the same version from most sites on my tablet as my desktop there is one major difference.
Links, buttons and menus. Menus on a desktop are nothing but on a tablet can be hit or miss.
As for m.slashdot.org it doesn't stay logged in for me. in order to login in and stay logged in I have to switch to the desktop version. login and then switch back and it mostly keeps me logged in. Then their is that most commented top piece that does nothing but get in the way. I want to see articles in the same order as on the main site. that way I know if it is a duplicate or one I haven't read through yet.
on a tablet that is a pain as the tiny desktop/ mobile links are a pain to press. On my phone that is down right annoying.
So far the only website that I like is Ars Technica. on my tablet I see the full site but on my phone I get the mobile one. it is easy to log in and easy to use all across the board.
Here is the trick. something like 80% of large projects fail on the first try.
From business linux deployments, to website creations, to new weapon systems for the military(M-16 anyone)
The federal government does nothing but large projects so it gets lots of failure, but the every large company in the USA has at least one large boondogle project fail annually. Or at least fail the first couple of times.
BING, FBI database, iphone 4 (you're holding it wrong) all suffered from design failures of the real world.
Forget cronyism, bureaucrats are the real issue with every large project. Real leaders can reign them in and control them. unfortunately real leaders can't get elected very often.
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the larger the organization the harder it is to change. it is why large government projects fail so hard. How many tries did it take the FBI to update it's systems?
I know one company(80 people) that tried for 5 years to find a fairly simple path to upgrade obsolete IBM server. they still haven't done so. and still connect to the server through special terminal programs.(IBM used an IBM only terminal emulator which they no longer have source code for).
The company i currently work for(20 people) did an ERP switch. the actual data transfer went mostly painlessly. training the users in the much simpler and effective UI took a month of dedicated training, and 6 months of answering "how do I" questions. every once in a while those questions still appear but that is normal.
Now image trying that with a couple of thousand employees, and you have a nightmare.
you wouldn't 3d print a silverware set.
however maybe a plasticware set if the prices come down.
The writer was envisioning a start trek style utopia where money really isn't needed. As you build once, work out the bugs, and forward the plans on to a machine which then can build an unlimited number.
only the plans matter. not production. not money. the big problem with such scenario is base resource distribution. that is where wealth comes into play for our existing system. we work not because we want to but because it is the way to acquire the pieces we need. but someone will still have go cut and shape trees into lumber, mine the various ores, grow the food. while machines can assist us with those tasks they will still have to be done by hand. and who is to determine how much of each are you allowed for.
well that and in Germany they enforce certain road regulations. like you must be in the right lane unless you are passing somebody.
That is a rule in most US states too. but it isn't enforced.
here is the trick. you put them on the internet so that you can cheap out on labor.
This way you can hire on an hourly rate the programmers who make adjustments. I know a major golf equipment manufacturer, whose systems are on the net . now there is a VPN, and an air gap(the local repair technician has to physically plug the cable into the network port for updates)
However the guys who do the programing, come out to the job site for initial setup and testing, once you are up to speed. future errors are debugged over the net.
SCADA on the internet is almost a requirement. it is cheaper to hire out help on an as needed basis than paying some guy to sit on his ass 90% of the time.
cooperation only works if you are not greedy or jealous.
computer security needs to be thought of in the beginning. and it never really has been.
from the protocols on up. security has generally been the last thought of computer programmers.
While you are correct in 2004 apple was shipping PowerPC CPU's.
Aple and osx has made not one but two processor arch changes in the last year. IOS is basically a sandboxxed version of osx running a touchUI. Apple does drop support for older hardware however my 2009 macbook is running mavericks just fine. That's five years and 4 OS revisions.
You forgot with no Armor. That thing won't stop more than five bullets before it comes crash down to earth.
Just don't use google + and everyone in a while check the security settings o that it stays locked down.
google is just merging all of it's products to one username/password combo. instead of having an account with youLube, Docs, mail, etcs, it is google +.
It will make adding features easier on the backend. the down side is I don't use social networking, of course since I have an iPhone I can't use google contacts anyways.
the UK doesn't have free speech. it isn't considered a right.
Now I do believe there is a law that allows one to speak their own mind, as long it doesn't(insert long list of exceptions here).
Only a handful of countries actually have free speech and free press.
that's just it.
unlike wall street, crowd funding is real investing. you are putting money into real people and real projects.
there is a good chance that those projects will fail. there is no money back guarantee.
Wall street however unless you are in the IPO you are not handing money over to a company you are just passing it to/from other investors. 99.9999999999% of the time had gotten it the same way. if I buy 1000 shares of company xzy at $10 a share the company doesn't get a check for $10,000. the company doesn't see any money from wall street directly after the IPO. when you invest in wall street you invest in the companies books not products.
Um seriously?
Take a look at Syria. There are no US troops there and they are slaughtering themselves just fine. Iraq still has weekly car bombings. Hell in Iraq the majority of all deaths were not from coalition troops but from Muslim fighters killing everyone who didn't agree with them.
Personally I say we retreat back to north america maybe keep one or two bases open and wait in 20 years the world will descend into major war. For as war hungry as the USA has been theUSA has been the person everyone can hate equally.
Of course I also believe in letting Iran have nukes. Iran is stupid enough to use them. Most likely against Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.
As the other poster stated. targeted ads are always failures.
Once a year I hit up all the major car companies to look at the new models. I go to every one to see the cars I can't afford in my dreams down to potential cars. For the next 2 months I see nothing but ads for cars that I really don't want to buy.
I shop for christmas gifts, all I see is ads for stuff I either bought, or ignored as it wasn't what I wanted.
I have not once seen a target ad that was actually useful.
60 years ago the majority of women were not allowed to work.
Only 96 years ago were women even counted as citizens who could vote.
By doubling the potentional work force. Wages stagnated. Of course I would rather live in a world were people are equal rather than one were one group thinks there better based on stupid shit like skin color or gender.
Nope the USA let capitalism get in the way. unrestricted capitalism. Just look at health insurance. it isn't based on good facts, but on the companies we work for providing information.
besides lastly the USA is doing something else. trying to commercialize space travel. to push the cost of launching onto people who have an interest in lowering said costs greatly.
Not only that but the USA also realizes that space is a pain in the ass. The few resources present are useful but hardly justify the short term let alone long term costs. In space you have to take everything with you. including water and oxygen. normally you can find those on earth just about anywhere you need to go. Even nuclear subs have it easy compared to space travel. while oxygen in gaseous form is hard to find under water, it can easily be made, from the abundance of water.
The moon, mars, only have small quantities of frozen water. therefore if you want a colony of any decent size you literally have to ship those locations water on a continuous basis. water that can only come from earth.
Water is very hard to ship, and with a cost of thousands of dollars a pound very expensive to ship into space.
The ACA isn't a tax. it is mandating health insurance with preset coverage minimums and limits. you can't pay $50 a month for benefits that don't actually cover you when you go to use them.
the ACA only fines you "tax" if you don't have it or the companies don't have enough.
also religious institutions have no problem giving out viagra to men. it is just female drugs that present problems.
Which is a sexist double standard.
It gets better,
They want to block nuns access to contraceptives but are willing to give the priests viagra.
Christians are filled with nothing but hypocritical double standards.
True but then you need a big desk too.
I moved a year ago and I have yet to setup !y desk and desktop. My laptop plays the games I want it to my tablet serves me reading material every where else. Literally my laptop sits on an end table next to the couch. I use 802.11n 5 GHz
All Ireally need is a personal dropbox cloud to transport files without going across the net. But I don't do large files so drop box isn't bad.
randomly sends data to the network card without going through the CPU first.?
My 2009 macbook randomly wakes up and processes some data for about 5 seconds and shuts off.
two reinstalls, and I still can't track it down. fortunately I just turn off the wifi when I put the machine to sleep. it still does it, but at least I know it isn't sending anything to anyone.
not the federal the county government. and yes I bet that is legit for the initial test.
They were probably given the brine for free so the company wouldn't have to dispose of it legally. which would also cost a couple of thousand of dollars.
the end evolution of all companies is government.
for the pikeman generation
First your start small your company is cute, adorable, maybe with a few good tricks.
It then evolves into a larger stronger version, it can push a few people around and it gets pushed around occasionally but it can weather the fights usually okay. This is where most companies stop.
then it usually merges with other companies either by force or choice,(a select few can just grow this big) you have a very large international client base, you buy and sell politicians on the used lawyer lots, etc.
Next up you hire private armies to help enforce your point of view. Only a few have become this large as government get jealous and pushes back. see East India Trading company for details.
Then you are a government. a jealous, large beast made up with lawyers, bureaucrats who hold the real power of the group. the leadership likes to think they are in charge but the leadership comes and goes the bureaucrats remain forever
Except that the ATF program was started in 2007. It was only expanded by Obama,
Obama has done enough shit wrong stop using lies to expand it.
Besides if you think McCain or Romney would have made a different choice you are an idiot. Obama is following the standard conservative agenda and yes obamacare is included. Look up romneycare first.
when will they come up with 3D printed skin for burn victims? Take a few skin cells clone them, and create huge sheets of skin for new grafts.
that's just it while I want the same version from most sites on my tablet as my desktop there is one major difference.
Links, buttons and menus. Menus on a desktop are nothing but on a tablet can be hit or miss.
As for m.slashdot.org it doesn't stay logged in for me. in order to login in and stay logged in I have to switch to the desktop version. login and then switch back and it mostly keeps me logged in. Then their is that most commented top piece that does nothing but get in the way. I want to see articles in the same order as on the main site. that way I know if it is a duplicate or one I haven't read through yet.
on a tablet that is a pain as the tiny desktop/ mobile links are a pain to press. On my phone that is down right annoying.
So far the only website that I like is Ars Technica. on my tablet I see the full site but on my phone I get the mobile one. it is easy to log in and easy to use all across the board.
Here is the trick. something like 80% of large projects fail on the first try.
From business linux deployments, to website creations, to new weapon systems for the military(M-16 anyone)
The federal government does nothing but large projects so it gets lots of failure, but the every large company in the USA has at least one large boondogle project fail annually. Or at least fail the first couple of times.
BING, FBI database, iphone 4 (you're holding it wrong) all suffered from design failures of the real world.
Forget cronyism, bureaucrats are the real issue with every large project. Real leaders can reign them in and control them. unfortunately real leaders can't get elected very often.