An F1 race track doesn't have lanes, public roadways do. So when some jackass corners on a change ramp going from one highway to another perpendicular to each other, there's a much greater change for hovering in an out of one lane. More specifically, starting with the outer lane, then inner at the apex, and then outer again coming out of the corner. It's not difficult to see how dangerous this is for other motorists.
There is a difference between knowing and understanding. The ability for Americans to understand has been on the waning side for quite some time. When people rely on TV, news, and Google searches point-blank, what they know to be factual isn't necessarily so. Only though understanding can you decipher what is and isn't factual among the knowledge you're seeking. Therefore, simply accepting knowledge without understanding leads to mental atrophy of the brain. In other words, the "dumbing down" of society leads to political abuse by those either in or seeking power.
About six months ago, my wife and I were doing some shopping at the local mall. Within earshot, I overheard a young high school girl saying "I don't need to remember any of that, I just "Google" everything in life. Google answers everything". It's like I was living in a bad dream. Now I *know* we are truly fucked. Precious snowflakes just ripe to be lead by the pied piper for that single vote that leads to a dictatorship.
While some political systems are inherently better than others at fostering freedom, in the end they all fail. It all comes down to people. People are are what hold civilization together. Their lack of participation is ultimately what brings them down.
My Chinese wife (born and raised in Shanghai) now living in Houston, TX would say you're full of shit. She's the risky one in the relationship. I prefer job stability while she prefers oportunity. In her words, there are far more business and wealth oportunities in the US than in China. Over there, you get around through old world politicking. Ironically, her attitude makes her more "American" than me.
More and more, the Chinese want an improved lifestyle with cars, entertainment, food, and better homes to live in. They have all the basic human desires that we all do. They so desperately want to become more "American" from a personal freedom and opportunity aspect if only the rest of their society and government would let them. It's an up hill struggle for China as a whole, but they're trying.
Why is it that Euro cosmopolitans have this desire to have that "concentration camp" look. Is there some form of strange bondage and domination fetish I'm not getting? The Nazis were bad. Hmm k?
Sounds like to me you're in the wrong line of programming. Some coders make 100k a year. But if you're only making 30k, there are several reasons why. First, your work could be easy to outsource for. Second, your employer values your locality. Or third, you're a sucker for accepting this payment. Again, programming isn't the problem here. But perhaps the type of programming you're doing is not very marketable in the workforce.
As with all drugs that alter the brain chemistry, don't you run the risk of becoming dependent on them? Not addicted, but honestly chemically dependent. If someone takes SSRIs for 20 years, won't the brain re-wire itself to become dependent on those as a baseline for the "new normal"?
Where I work, we have a small local bank that's been robbed at least two times in five years. I believe it happened just before the break of dawn. To early but minimal staff to assist on demand. I've personally had CC fraud where someone ordered many Palm Pilot unit under my name and shipped them elsewhere. When I reported it to my bank, they simply stated it would be handled and taken care of. Not too worry they said. Well, I didn't worry and everything seemed like it was swept under the rung.
So there you go. Banks must really hide the fraud and theft from the average citizen so as to not lose market share.
Hence the reason for the terminal/console to the TV. But even this device must have been too expensive of an investment that does not have any proven track record. It was ahead of its time and potentially above the optimal price point threshold.
It was a great idea in fact. It was just at the wrong place and time for marketing this kind of service.
Why in the hell was the parent modded a Troll? It's arguably flamebait, but surely not trolling. BTW, I agree. RIM is riding out their momentum on previous loyal clients. Specifically the ones in the financial district such as banks and whatnot. But the days of RIM are numbered. Poor guys. If I was employed there, I would be writing my exit strategy to find another place of employment. Hopefully RIM make the smart move and adopt the Droid platform for at least core functionality and API integration.
My karma be damned, but it's true. For all the rest of you, I dare you to prove otherwise in the top six US cities. I know for an absolute fact that most people that take the bus in Houston, TX are almost exclusively minorities and street beggers.
Sony used to make good products. Which is a damn shame really! They used to be a household name brand you could trust in the 80s and 90s. Everything from their TVs, Discmans, Walkmans, Stereo receivers, car speakers, etc. For the most part, it's all junk now! It's shit practically designed in china and re-branded with a Sony badge. About the only thing Sony manages to get right is making their devices aesthetically pleasing to the eye. And even that's gone down hill due to cost cutting. For example, see the 1st gen PS3 to the current monotone matte plastic model.
True. However with newer computer technologies, they can be both extremely efficient in low power consumption and draw upon a tremendous amount of power on demand. The delta change in power consumption for each workstation can anywhere from 250 Watts on up. So imagine all workstations getting maxed out in both CPU and GPU? Such a scenario is extremely unlikely in average day to day work use. But queue up a CPU/GPU distributed processing program for all workstations...well it could be a bad day.
Yes, they can do far worse. See China for example. Fascism and Communism are essentially two sides of the same coin called Statism. It has been and always will be an epic fail to follow down these paths.
So what exactly is the perfect system or solution? Trick question. There is none. People suck. Period.
But costed the company in terms of an increased power bill. You're lucky you weren't using modern GPU and CPU technology. Depending on how many powerful workstations you have in an office environment, you might pop the circuit breaker searching for ET.
You think that's bad. You haven't seen NY Bedbugs. Sure, they look like a normal bedbug. But these guys really take in blood. When finished, they waddle off the size of a basketball and still manage to ninja themselves out of site. You know you've been bitten when you feel light headed. But you know what the worst part of it is? You don't get paid for that "blood donation" and they always come back for more.
There are a ton of vertical market applications that are developed for the Windows platform. So Windows is not going away in the business world. Not by a long shot. Where Apple will continue to dominate is in the home market and BYOD iThings from employees into the office.
Basically, Microsoft will hang in there like IBM without any further ground breaking market penetration.
My favorite is getting notifications that all our servers went offline. Now typically, that would be at the network (ISP) level. So come to find out later that the entire facility lost power. Apparently they performed an internally scheduled UPS test without letting us know before hand. Well, they completed the test alright. It was a failure.
In that whole event, we ended up with dirty NTFS volumes that needed to have chkdsk ran and one or two servers with a failed drive in their respective RAID5 arrays. Not happy!
Search for regedit. Now right-click of the executable and choose "Run as Administrator". I haven't tried it myself, but perhaps elevating the permissions might make a difference???
If anything businesses will follow suit and stay with Windows 7. But as a computer technician, expect something different this time with the consumer market. I wouldn't be surprised at all if people bail on Windows and go right for OSX. Those iMacs and Mac Minis provide a nice value for the dollar. Time Machine is perhaps the best backup scheme I've ever used. It's simple to use, works without fuss, and restores are super simple. Windows Vista and Windows 7 have a useful backup program, but the BMR feature is crippled except on Pro and Ultimate editions. It's also kind of buried compared to how backups are presented in OSX. If anything, your next cash flow trend will be migrating user data from a Windows machine to an Apple Mac. Fancy that!
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An F1 race track doesn't have lanes, public roadways do. So when some jackass corners on a change ramp going from one highway to another perpendicular to each other, there's a much greater change for hovering in an out of one lane. More specifically, starting with the outer lane, then inner at the apex, and then outer again coming out of the corner. It's not difficult to see how dangerous this is for other motorists.
There is a difference between knowing and understanding. The ability for Americans to understand has been on the waning side for quite some time. When people rely on TV, news, and Google searches point-blank, what they know to be factual isn't necessarily so. Only though understanding can you decipher what is and isn't factual among the knowledge you're seeking. Therefore, simply accepting knowledge without understanding leads to mental atrophy of the brain. In other words, the "dumbing down" of society leads to political abuse by those either in or seeking power.
Bingo!
About six months ago, my wife and I were doing some shopping at the local mall. Within earshot, I overheard a young high school girl saying "I don't need to remember any of that, I just "Google" everything in life. Google answers everything". It's like I was living in a bad dream. Now I *know* we are truly fucked. Precious snowflakes just ripe to be lead by the pied piper for that single vote that leads to a dictatorship.
While some political systems are inherently better than others at fostering freedom, in the end they all fail. It all comes down to people. People are are what hold civilization together. Their lack of participation is ultimately what brings them down.
My Chinese wife (born and raised in Shanghai) now living in Houston, TX would say you're full of shit. She's the risky one in the relationship. I prefer job stability while she prefers oportunity. In her words, there are far more business and wealth oportunities in the US than in China. Over there, you get around through old world politicking. Ironically, her attitude makes her more "American" than me.
More and more, the Chinese want an improved lifestyle with cars, entertainment, food, and better homes to live in. They have all the basic human desires that we all do. They so desperately want to become more "American" from a personal freedom and opportunity aspect if only the rest of their society and government would let them. It's an up hill struggle for China as a whole, but they're trying.
Why is it that Euro cosmopolitans have this desire to have that "concentration camp" look. Is there some form of strange bondage and domination fetish I'm not getting? The Nazis were bad. Hmm k?
Yup, I definitely see a likeness.
Everything that uses and harnesses energy inherently is a weapon.
Fire can cook and protect. It can also kill.
Nuclear energy can provide energy for thousands of people. Nuclear materials can also be constructed in a way to kill those thousands of people too.
Any future technology that could create an artificial star may in fact be used to blow one up. Or at the very least snuff one out.
Dynamics change, but the proportions of nurture to kill do not.
I prefer to call em the corporate fuck bunnies. No wonder why many are so deprived of sleep....and walk funny too.
Sounds like to me you're in the wrong line of programming. Some coders make 100k a year. But if you're only making 30k, there are several reasons why. First, your work could be easy to outsource for. Second, your employer values your locality. Or third, you're a sucker for accepting this payment. Again, programming isn't the problem here. But perhaps the type of programming you're doing is not very marketable in the workforce.
As with all drugs that alter the brain chemistry, don't you run the risk of becoming dependent on them? Not addicted, but honestly chemically dependent. If someone takes SSRIs for 20 years, won't the brain re-wire itself to become dependent on those as a baseline for the "new normal"?
Where I work, we have a small local bank that's been robbed at least two times in five years. I believe it happened just before the break of dawn. To early but minimal staff to assist on demand. I've personally had CC fraud where someone ordered many Palm Pilot unit under my name and shipped them elsewhere. When I reported it to my bank, they simply stated it would be handled and taken care of. Not too worry they said. Well, I didn't worry and everything seemed like it was swept under the rung.
So there you go. Banks must really hide the fraud and theft from the average citizen so as to not lose market share.
Hence the reason for the terminal/console to the TV. But even this device must have been too expensive of an investment that does not have any proven track record. It was ahead of its time and potentially above the optimal price point threshold.
It was a great idea in fact. It was just at the wrong place and time for marketing this kind of service.
MOD UP!
Why in the hell was the parent modded a Troll? It's arguably flamebait, but surely not trolling. BTW, I agree. RIM is riding out their momentum on previous loyal clients. Specifically the ones in the financial district such as banks and whatnot. But the days of RIM are numbered. Poor guys. If I was employed there, I would be writing my exit strategy to find another place of employment. Hopefully RIM make the smart move and adopt the Droid platform for at least core functionality and API integration.
My karma be damned, but it's true. For all the rest of you, I dare you to prove otherwise in the top six US cities. I know for an absolute fact that most people that take the bus in Houston, TX are almost exclusively minorities and street beggers.
Sony used to make good products. Which is a damn shame really! They used to be a household name brand you could trust in the 80s and 90s. Everything from their TVs, Discmans, Walkmans, Stereo receivers, car speakers, etc. For the most part, it's all junk now! It's shit practically designed in china and re-branded with a Sony badge. About the only thing Sony manages to get right is making their devices aesthetically pleasing to the eye. And even that's gone down hill due to cost cutting. For example, see the 1st gen PS3 to the current monotone matte plastic model.
True. However with newer computer technologies, they can be both extremely efficient in low power consumption and draw upon a tremendous amount of power on demand. The delta change in power consumption for each workstation can anywhere from 250 Watts on up. So imagine all workstations getting maxed out in both CPU and GPU? Such a scenario is extremely unlikely in average day to day work use. But queue up a CPU/GPU distributed processing program for all workstations...well it could be a bad day.
Yes, they can do far worse. See China for example. Fascism and Communism are essentially two sides of the same coin called Statism. It has been and always will be an epic fail to follow down these paths.
So what exactly is the perfect system or solution? Trick question. There is none. People suck. Period.
But costed the company in terms of an increased power bill. You're lucky you weren't using modern GPU and CPU technology. Depending on how many powerful workstations you have in an office environment, you might pop the circuit breaker searching for ET.
'terminator genes'? Well, so they've finally invented GRM.
GRM = Genetic Rights Managment.
You think that's bad. You haven't seen NY Bedbugs. Sure, they look like a normal bedbug. But these guys really take in blood. When finished, they waddle off the size of a basketball and still manage to ninja themselves out of site. You know you've been bitten when you feel light headed. But you know what the worst part of it is? You don't get paid for that "blood donation" and they always come back for more.
There are a ton of vertical market applications that are developed for the Windows platform. So Windows is not going away in the business world. Not by a long shot. Where Apple will continue to dominate is in the home market and BYOD iThings from employees into the office.
Basically, Microsoft will hang in there like IBM without any further ground breaking market penetration.
My favorite is getting notifications that all our servers went offline. Now typically, that would be at the network (ISP) level. So come to find out later that the entire facility lost power. Apparently they performed an internally scheduled UPS test without letting us know before hand. Well, they completed the test alright. It was a failure.
In that whole event, we ended up with dirty NTFS volumes that needed to have chkdsk ran and one or two servers with a failed drive in their respective RAID5 arrays. Not happy!
Our universe is just another marble in someone's bag. *sigh*
Search for regedit. Now right-click of the executable and choose "Run as Administrator". I haven't tried it myself, but perhaps elevating the permissions might make a difference???
If anything businesses will follow suit and stay with Windows 7. But as a computer technician, expect something different this time with the consumer market. I wouldn't be surprised at all if people bail on Windows and go right for OSX. Those iMacs and Mac Minis provide a nice value for the dollar. Time Machine is perhaps the best backup scheme I've ever used. It's simple to use, works without fuss, and restores are super simple. Windows Vista and Windows 7 have a useful backup program, but the BMR feature is crippled except on Pro and Ultimate editions. It's also kind of buried compared to how backups are presented in OSX. If anything, your next cash flow trend will be migrating user data from a Windows machine to an Apple Mac. Fancy that!