I have had similar requests from a family who was concerned for their daughters welfare. The parents genuinely loved the daughter and were not over protective and had a reasonable justification for their concern. A simple solution was webwatcher monitoring software. you can look it up at webwatchernow dot com. use your best judgment in getting involved, both ethically and for legal reasons. Another request was for an office which was being run by a former congressman. There was plenty of back and forth about the legality of his requests. In the end only a subset of what he wanted was legal, and that was what was implemented. He of course was fired after only a few months. You can parse the index.dat file for some retroactive information. As for the phones, texting etc, there is no immediate solution which is reasonable that I am aware of. Perhaps he can remove texting/smart phone capabilities from those devices. It is no less reasonable than his request.
This case is about how Oracle can monetize Java. They spent 6 billion dollars on Sun and what Google is doing without direct compensation to Oracle devalues Java. This is the first step of many by Oracle to force profits from their purchase. Ellison is fairly adept at making money, and doesn't seem concerned about whether or not he is liked. This first case of making the Sun purchase pay for itself is not going in his favor currently.
Apple is and has been an advertising company for some time. iAd may not be popular or successful, but Apple is in the business of selling their consumers to advertisers.
Google didn't necessarily want to win the Spectrum auction. They wanted the open access rules that got passed through the FCC. Google won that auction by not winning (sort of Zen). However Verizon who did win, is definitely toeing the line of the agreements.
They wouldn't have a need to make a deal with Android/Google. They could simply take the code and start building it to suit the hardware, and have had very successful phones out over a year ago with a much more successful ecosystem. Nokia had a great name five years ago, and now it is essentially squandered in the US. Maybe WP7 will be great and WP8 doubly so, but they've been so slow to get these out of the gates that it seems meaningless at this point.
I've been suspecting that the way Google is going, that the chrome browser will eventually have a full chrome based Android VM in the cloud or at least android apps in the cloud. log in once and your apps are there for those times your phone isn't.
The entire article was half baked and failed. Google did not purchase Motorola Mobility so that they could get streaming Google music to home Appliances. To miss the fact entirely that they were buying up a strong and relevant mobile patent portfolio, is a big indicator as to their understanding of Google. I could go on but their article doesn't warrant the effort.
From what I've read, the use of QNX necessitates an entirely new version (ground up rewrite) of BES server software to be written. So an enterprise will need one BES server for QNX devices and a legacy server for the legacy models. They haven't released a new version of BES yet, so they relented and used active sync on the device. They made a choice not to release the PB with email so they could build a new BES Server. Now the people who bought one could easily have had one with active sync, a year ago but that challenged their sunk costs business model. When companies atart finding reasons not to ship a tablet with email because it conflicts with their interests then they deserve to fail. The RIM backend passthru model of servers it outdated and expensive and will not scale well as people use more bandwidth.
To be honest, the PlayBook is a non entity, I am very surprised they would block this device. It does raise a lot of concerns about the future plans they have with Android/iPad/Win8. If they pull back from any of these OS's or devices it will severely alter the relevance of their streaming media/Prime offerings. They are walking tightrope here. All that being said; why start with the PlayBook? Who is buying one of those over a Kindle Fire?
I see your point, however some sites get built, use non standard browser/OS specific features and then don't get updated in a timely basis. You can be running Windows, except you're running IE 8 or 9, and the site only supports 6 or 7 (in a compatibility mode at that). At that point it is inappropriate that tax payer dollars get used, and in such a manner that Tax Payers need to forgo upgrades, or are screwed if the mistakenly try to use IE9 or a perfectly viable OS. Better off using open standards in my opinion than locking in Tax Payers to an OS of your schools choosing.
There is already an IT Department, but it exists as employees, under the umbrella of Engineering. Creating an IT Department simply changes the titles and reporting structure, and adds a new business silo. The bigger question here is what needs are not being met that make you feel creating a new Department is the solution to? If it is a lack of funding given to IT requests/needs then whoever is leading the IT team needs to improve their skill at explaining/justifying IT requests. If IT requests made in the Engineering department fall on deaf ears (which is what I am assuming is occurring), and the company doesn't see this as potentially damaging, then creating an IT department, wouldn't solve the problem. It is a culture issue at that point. Believe it or not many people are bothered by IT expenditures, and are oblivious to the role it plays in operations except when it doesn't work properly. My advice to you would be to itemize what is failing to be met in IT currently and how creating an IT department resolves them. Feel free to post the reply/rant here. For the most part we've all been there, and or are currently there, and maybe we can help package the answers for you.
I thought the fact that it was open meant anyone could use it without licensing. Similar to how and why we can use wifi? I would expect the broadcast strength to be limited howevet ad a result.
Why not use the recently opened white space spectrum which has roughly 3 mile range vs the limited range of WiFi?
Lower throughput currently, but that can be remedied.
Interesting theory, but decidedly false. My mother asked for a tablet, not an iPad for Christmas. I asked her if she meant an iPad, to which she said, isn't Android just as good? Now here is the kicker: I am pro Android, but in the end I bought her an iPad2. Because for her it was probably the easiest solution to use. So long story short, my 65 year old mother wanted a tablet not an iPad, and knew Android was an alternative OS that was equally viable. She can barely use a cell phone or an answering machine on her home phone (sigh) but knew the distinction here.
So are you saying that the 700,000 Android devices activated daily are only useful for techies like Slashdot readers? There are plenty of people doing an endless variety of things with these all too complex Android phones.
The board at Apple was largely irrelevant at least during the tenure of Steve. Things may be changing or different now, but Steve's driving ambition wasn't shareholder value, or profits. He was product driven, and it shows in his work. Companies like HP, Dell, and Asus are profit driven, and it shows in their products. This is why Steve asked the entire board to step down, during his re-entry, so that he didn't have to fight them along the way.
But is it irrelevant on a dual core 1.5 ghz Exynos processor with 2GB of Ram, or on a Tegra 3 quad+1 core? If the answer is yes then the argument against using Java is already passing its period of relevance.
A car. I could quit my job, or bike to work and arrive a sweaty mess, or move to a city, or take mass transit for an hour vs 25 minutes of commute.
A radio. Music is a luxury nothing more.
A home phone. People can write letters like we used to did in my days as a kid.
A TV. News is only entertainment and the entertainment isn't even entertaining.
Electric lights. Candles work, and who needs to be up after dark falls?
Plumbing. There's an outhouse down the block.
None of these are necessities, unless you want to have a career. Personally my Job mandates I have a smartphone. (IT). So I need one, as without one, I wouldn't be able to afford food, shelter and clothing right now.
Past that there is no place for a Smart Phone on Maslow's hierarchy of needs unless it helps to achieve one or more of them. A cell phone is not very useful when what you need is clean drinking water, but then again not much is.
Bonch admit you know nothing about anything except that your iPhone has Siri. Google has been working on Artificial intelligence since the beginning of the company. Google Voice and talk has given a huge base of sampling to interpret dialectics, speech patterns, Google books scanning has given the ability to parse natural languages of all cultures. The analytics and data mining engines on the back end of Google are incredibly adept at parsing queries. Their AI is able to pass the Turing tests 97% of the time. This is not Google trying to mimic siri (which simply uses Google and Wolfram alpha ) for response answers. This is a full effort to create Artificial Intelligence and natural query/response systems. If Google intended to be a search engine that was just like prior Information retrieval systems then Google would have failed. They understand the user needs and drivers way more than you dataset allows for.
It wasn't exactly stated in the article, but I believe they are using it for admissions, class registration and most likely to unify organisational requirements associated with similar aspects of this. Many universities and other Colleges use ERP for the exact same purposes. In this case the student is a resource, and the university is the enterprise, and Oracle is shifty integrator. That last bit about Oracle is pure speculation, but they certainly haven't done much to earn themselves a reputation of trustworthiness.
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I have had similar requests from a family who was concerned for their daughters welfare. The parents genuinely loved the daughter and were not over protective and had a reasonable justification for their concern. A simple solution was webwatcher monitoring software. you can look it up at webwatchernow dot com. use your best judgment in getting involved, both ethically and for legal reasons.
Another request was for an office which was being run by a former congressman. There was plenty of back and forth about the legality of his requests. In the end only a subset of what he wanted was legal, and that was what was implemented. He of course was fired after only a few months. You can parse the index.dat file for some retroactive information. As for the phones, texting etc, there is no immediate solution which is reasonable that I am aware of. Perhaps he can remove texting/smart phone capabilities from those devices. It is no less reasonable than his request.
This case is about how Oracle can monetize Java. They spent 6 billion dollars on Sun and what Google is doing without direct compensation to Oracle devalues Java. This is the first step of many by Oracle to force profits from their purchase. Ellison is fairly adept at making money, and doesn't seem concerned about whether or not he is liked. This first case of making the Sun purchase pay for itself is not going in his favor currently.
Apple is and has been an advertising company for some time. iAd may not be popular or successful, but Apple is in the business of selling their consumers to advertisers.
timsort was a direct port from python if it matters.
Wouldn't the effort of getting a perfect score of gibberish be the same as actually writing a competent well informed and reasoned work?
Actually it was a Samsung Tab 10.1 with an Android on the back (limited edition), and a Chromebook?
Google didn't necessarily want to win the Spectrum auction. They wanted the open access rules that got passed through the FCC. Google won that auction by not winning (sort of Zen). However Verizon who did win, is definitely toeing the line of the agreements.
They wouldn't have a need to make a deal with Android/Google. They could simply take the code and start building it to suit the hardware, and have had very successful phones out over a year ago with a much more successful ecosystem. Nokia had a great name five years ago, and now it is essentially squandered in the US. Maybe WP7 will be great and WP8 doubly so, but they've been so slow to get these out of the gates that it seems meaningless at this point.
Kudos on the Macross signature.
I've been suspecting that the way Google is going, that the chrome browser will eventually have a full chrome based Android VM in the cloud or at least android apps in the cloud. log in once and your apps are there for those times your phone isn't.
The entire article was half baked and failed. Google did not purchase Motorola Mobility so that they could get streaming Google music to home Appliances. To miss the fact entirely that they were buying up a strong and relevant mobile patent portfolio, is a big indicator as to their understanding of Google. I could go on but their article doesn't warrant the effort.
Ben Franklin was not alive during the Civil War, and towards the end of his life he gave his slaves freedom, and became an abolitionist.
From what I've read, the use of QNX necessitates an entirely new version (ground up rewrite) of BES server software to be written. So an enterprise will need one BES server for QNX devices and a legacy server for the legacy models. They haven't released a new version of BES yet, so they relented and used active sync on the device. They made a choice not to release the PB with email so they could build a new BES Server. Now the people who bought one could easily have had one with active sync, a year ago but that challenged their sunk costs business model. When companies atart finding reasons not to ship a tablet with email because it conflicts with their interests then they deserve to fail. The RIM backend passthru model of servers it outdated and expensive and will not scale well as people use more bandwidth.
To be honest, the PlayBook is a non entity, I am very surprised they would block this device. It does raise a lot of concerns about the future plans they have with Android/iPad/Win8. If they pull back from any of these OS's or devices it will severely alter the relevance of their streaming media/Prime offerings. They are walking tightrope here. All that being said; why start with the PlayBook? Who is buying one of those over a Kindle Fire?
I see your point, however some sites get built, use non standard browser/OS specific features and then don't get updated in a timely basis. You can be running Windows, except you're running IE 8 or 9, and the site only supports 6 or 7 (in a compatibility mode at that). At that point it is inappropriate that tax payer dollars get used, and in such a manner that Tax Payers need to forgo upgrades, or are screwed if the mistakenly try to use IE9 or a perfectly viable OS. Better off using open standards in my opinion than locking in Tax Payers to an OS of your schools choosing.
There is already an IT Department, but it exists as employees, under the umbrella of Engineering. Creating an IT Department simply changes the titles and reporting structure, and adds a new business silo. The bigger question here is what needs are not being met that make you feel creating a new Department is the solution to? If it is a lack of funding given to IT requests/needs then whoever is leading the IT team needs to improve their skill at explaining/justifying IT requests. If IT requests made in the Engineering department fall on deaf ears (which is what I am assuming is occurring), and the company doesn't see this as potentially damaging, then creating an IT department, wouldn't solve the problem. It is a culture issue at that point. Believe it or not many people are bothered by IT expenditures, and are oblivious to the role it plays in operations except when it doesn't work properly. My advice to you would be to itemize what is failing to be met in IT currently and how creating an IT department resolves them. Feel free to post the reply/rant here. For the most part we've all been there, and or are currently there, and maybe we can help package the answers for you.
I thought the fact that it was open meant anyone could use it without licensing. Similar to how and why we can use wifi? I would expect the broadcast strength to be limited howevet ad a result.
Why not use the recently opened white space spectrum which has roughly 3 mile range vs the limited range of WiFi? Lower throughput currently, but that can be remedied.
Interesting theory, but decidedly false. My mother asked for a tablet, not an iPad for Christmas. I asked her if she meant an iPad, to which she said, isn't Android just as good? Now here is the kicker: I am pro Android, but in the end I bought her an iPad2. Because for her it was probably the easiest solution to use. So long story short, my 65 year old mother wanted a tablet not an iPad, and knew Android was an alternative OS that was equally viable. She can barely use a cell phone or an answering machine on her home phone (sigh) but knew the distinction here.
So are you saying that the 700,000 Android devices activated daily are only useful for techies like Slashdot readers? There are plenty of people doing an endless variety of things with these all too complex Android phones.
The board at Apple was largely irrelevant at least during the tenure of Steve. Things may be changing or different now, but Steve's driving ambition wasn't shareholder value, or profits. He was product driven, and it shows in his work. Companies like HP, Dell, and Asus are profit driven, and it shows in their products. This is why Steve asked the entire board to step down, during his re-entry, so that he didn't have to fight them along the way.
But is it irrelevant on a dual core 1.5 ghz Exynos processor with 2GB of Ram, or on a Tegra 3 quad+1 core? If the answer is yes then the argument against using Java is already passing its period of relevance.
A car. I could quit my job, or bike to work and arrive a sweaty mess, or move to a city, or take mass transit for an hour vs 25 minutes of commute. A radio. Music is a luxury nothing more. A home phone. People can write letters like we used to did in my days as a kid. A TV. News is only entertainment and the entertainment isn't even entertaining. Electric lights. Candles work, and who needs to be up after dark falls? Plumbing. There's an outhouse down the block. None of these are necessities, unless you want to have a career. Personally my Job mandates I have a smartphone. (IT). So I need one, as without one, I wouldn't be able to afford food, shelter and clothing right now. Past that there is no place for a Smart Phone on Maslow's hierarchy of needs unless it helps to achieve one or more of them. A cell phone is not very useful when what you need is clean drinking water, but then again not much is.
Bonch admit you know nothing about anything except that your iPhone has Siri. Google has been working on Artificial intelligence since the beginning of the company. Google Voice and talk has given a huge base of sampling to interpret dialectics, speech patterns, Google books scanning has given the ability to parse natural languages of all cultures. The analytics and data mining engines on the back end of Google are incredibly adept at parsing queries. Their AI is able to pass the Turing tests 97% of the time. This is not Google trying to mimic siri (which simply uses Google and Wolfram alpha ) for response answers. This is a full effort to create Artificial Intelligence and natural query/response systems. If Google intended to be a search engine that was just like prior Information retrieval systems then Google would have failed. They understand the user needs and drivers way more than you dataset allows for.
It wasn't exactly stated in the article, but I believe they are using it for admissions, class registration and most likely to unify organisational requirements associated with similar aspects of this. Many universities and other Colleges use ERP for the exact same purposes. In this case the student is a resource, and the university is the enterprise, and Oracle is shifty integrator. That last bit about Oracle is pure speculation, but they certainly haven't done much to earn themselves a reputation of trustworthiness.