It seems perfectly reasonable for public libraries to become internet cafes, providing free shared internet services for those that can not afford it. This in conjunction with normal book services. The books definitely need to remain with people relying more than ever upon digital services, public libraries could become a haven for knowledge in the event of sustained power failure.
It is never about what society can afford, as elements within society will deem that society can afford nothing but to service them and damn everyone else (narcissists and sociopaths). It is about what society values and requires that it members contribute too, in order to remain a part of that society.
Whilst the opportunity no longer exists to exile the narcissists and sociopaths to the barbaric regions of the planet away from civilised people that share and care, we must still remember the lessons from the past and learn to isolate them from positions of control, governance and influence.
A logical evolutionary step, where physical capability took second place to mental flexibility. Those groups of human where physical capability took precedence over mental flexibility died out when adverse environmental conditions left them less capable of surviving then the mentally flexible brethren who could throw rocks, start a fire and put on and take off a fur coat.
The biggest driver for human evolution has likely been the recent (in evolutionary terms 2 million odd years) repeated ice ages giving precedence to mental agility of physical capability (being able to remain in a region and not having to pursue suitable climatic regions whilst stressed and against competition).
Straight off the bat it does look like PR=B$, "balance the performance of their networks, which allows the majority of customers to avoid being unfairly affected by a minority of heavy users". As everyone knows that is a lie, it has always been a lie and will always be a lie.
Heavy users drawn down 24 hours a day. The problem with bandwidth is peak load times, not the 24 hour a day load. Those peak time when everyone hooks up, like weekdays immediate after work and school finishes or early morning weekdays when everyone logs in and updates or lunch time when everyone stops work and does their private stuff. Even the 'heavy users' also log in at those times for the same reason, but the reality is to be a heavy users the bulk of your traffic is off peak times when it makes little difference, except of course to the corporate PR=B$.
Now when it comes to heavy users, let's differentiate between up-loaders and down-loaders. A heavy user up-loader is not a heavy user, they just have a lot of request coming in from light users seeking the information or service provided. Attacking up-loaders is all about anti-competitive practices, about killing off competing products and services, about making it impossible for example to create and publish their own content for sale by direct download, now that is the reality of the anti-net neutrality liars.
Perhaps because everything that is made in reality in actuality generally requires plane to be drawn and followed. So a FOSS 2d CAD package can be used by anyone that would also use a spread sheet and word processor, whether it is to draw plane of the future home or changes to their kitchen cupboards.
So that would be a cyberdefence unit, not a cyberwarfare unit or in this case as clearly delineated a cybersecurity unit. Whereas other country have been hyping attack, clearly the message was one of defence and providing computer security related expertise and investigation resources to state based police forces.
By definition that would make the Australia computer security team opposition to the US security team who wish to exploit security gaps to attack other countries rather than just being focused on preventing and investigating attacks. From a partnership in security focus could you never really trust the US unit, knowing that they would purposefully hide security weaknesses so that they can be exploited.
Especially when US government interests seems to be the dog wagged by the tail of US corporate interests. Especially when US corporate interests seem to have very little interest in the future of US citizens unless it is profitable for US corporate interests and obviously would have even less interest in the future of Australian citizens.
First get to the crux of the matter. Fossil fuels are not being subsidised, lets just through that lie away, corporate profits are being subsidised.
Those elected representative, elected upon the basis of unlimited advertising and PR=B$ funded by corporate dollars are simply and corruptly returning those campaign investments at something like a thousand to one return as corporate profits subsidies.
Corporations are generating returns of something like 10,000% profit on their campaign contributions. Corrupt politicians are literally burning up $10,000 for each dollar they can squirrel away in their own pockets. Things are more than just a little out of control in the US, where in reality by far the most profitable business is the corruption of the US democratic process. A multi-national mass media enterprise has even devoted an enormous part of it's resources to it, in the form of Fox not-News (not a disparaging title simply a valid observation of it's willingness to pretend advertising is news, of course it is not).
Which points to the exact problem of attempting to deal with a troll on any realistic level. A long pointless off topic thread, that the majority of forum attendees have no interest in reading.
So experience, provides the most logical answer in preserving forum integrity for the majority of users. Don't feed the trolls, completely pointless exercise, other than generating an off topic thread.
When necessary make use of comment moderation and probationary status (passing probation provides something to lose).
Your claim of troll supremacy also points to another issue, the best way to deal with one troll is not necessarily the best way to deal with ten or more trolls, creating nothing but a series of off topic threads.
If anyone has been paying attention lately, the maketdroids when they can not control a topic will attempt to create an off topic thread to fill the first page of comments in an attempt to drive of readers and serious comments, especially the professionally paranoid low skill government asshats. This now requires offtopic thread moderation, where the whole thread disappears into -1 oblivion.
Your thinking wrong kind of server. Adjust your thinking for no sound card, no video card, just an energy efficient CPU, hard disk drives and memory. Also no energy losses in a power supply, or its associated fan. In fact the only fan would be on the CPU and even that should be eliminated by with good design and an effective heat sink. Also adjust your DC conductivity for energy losses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Voltage_DC. Apparently there is only about a 30% difference between AC and DC for amperage loading over shorter distances, this versus removal of power supply and fans (transformer) to an external location where it can be run at hundreds of degree and be air-cooled. It all required a custom designed server unit made under contract.
Added to that new research has real added value. How much more bloody music do we need, there is already more out there than anyone can listen to in their lifetime. Do we actually need to promote the creation of more, do we not already have enough drunken drugged up minstrels to go around, do we actually need to create more and how exactly does that serve the needs of society.
Live music will thrive once the industry for dead music industry dies, has it not more than served any possible purpose and has it not in reality become more destructive than useful serving no purpose other than greed.
They are being taught another lesson. Once you make a foolish post on facebook, either admit it is false and get punished or make up a story and the teacher gets punished.
The school has not reach beyond school grounds, excluding school covered excursions and sporting events. Attempts by schools to censor children beyond school grounds should be targeted at parents and not at the children. Facebook is obviously not an appropriate social networking site for minors and Facebook management should be censured for allowing children to sign up with out parent consent and supervision.
In the Facebook age, silly naive people will get caught. The more reliant the become on computers finding conspiracies for them, the more subject to misinformation and obfuscation.
The reality is, you should only use open social networking when you are ready to go. Up until then more direct means of communication are safer.
If your live in a troubled country use external sources and people to pass on your information to a broader audience. Now it is global activism, so people can act locally via globally sourced support.
Revolutions occur because people no longer believe they are alone and without support.
It really only works for major data centres. Midi ones should have the servers embedded in external walls behind double glazed doors (internal atrium). Drawing in outside air, conditioning it and exhausting it or making use of the air temperature in a heat exchanger.
Another big improvement would be to go all DC in the server room, larger external transformers and redundant transformers (externalises a major heat source that can run at very high temperatures), simplifies battery backup and also adding solar panels and vertical wind turbines. Only other minor refinement, no aluminium conductors in the server room, not even in the equipment. Any loss of efficiency in conductors results in higher heat and wasted energy.
However once you are arrested and are unable to prove your identity that does leave you in a bit of a pickle. As the police should not let you go until they can establish who you are under existing immigration laws. The logic being if it can not be proved that you are a citizen then be default you become an illegal immigrant.subject to deportation once they can prove which country you belong to and they must accept you.
A voluntary ID card is reasonable as long as there are server penalties in place for privacy abuse, enabling the citizen to add medical records etc. for their personal benefit.
Data centres need to pay more attention to warehousing for objects of the size they handling. All the racks should be open and they should be accessed using automatic picking and packing systems.
Once the system is built automated picking system only should access the racks to pick defective units and return them to an air locked workstation and to insert the new data unit. This allows much higher racks and you can treat the whole data processing and storage area as an industrial process. Bringing in condition air at the required volume and temperature and then immediately exhausting it unless the high temperature air can be used (heating offices or a fitness centre the only realistic user of that volume and temperature of exhaust air).
This would be dependent upon the life cycle of units, the size of the data centre and, improved air handling efficiencies reducing running costs.
Two wrongs don't make a right but one wrong can certainly undo another wrong and from that can emerge a right.
There of course is the case of citizen's arrest. So citizen's digital search and obtaining of evidence where it is publicly clear that perpetrators are committing criminal activities and yet for unknown reasons government and police fail to act in an manner to kerb those criminal activities and even in some cases support those activities. Then of course the evidence is presented to the public for their assessment of the activities of the perpetrators of crime as well and the government that supports them.
The whole thing is questionable and undesirable but what to do when government and police fail to act upon the public commitment of crime by protected contractors. mass media, lobbyists, rogue public relations firms and of course corrupt politicians.
It is all rather passive and the only harm seems to be against those who profit by lies and for whom the truth is an anathema. They most certainly seem to wither and writhe when exposed to the public light of the truth.
Google is capable of validating the uniqueness and quality of those eyeballs (in fact if google were really cunning that could make a year of reviewing search results for free an entry requirement for employment). SEO can only find clones of the same low quality, deceitful, quisling eye balls. Wont take long to thin them out.
Speaking of computers could it be more than the recession that is influencing change. Is the internet and it's anti-marketing capability starting to have an impact on consumerism? As a result of the internet are people becoming more marketing resistant?
Is there a growing pressure for products that do last a life time, is the internet weakening fashion because all fashions remain alive on it and forever, is upgrade resistance driven by the growth in expressing ourselves by creating content and interacting with others?
So is the era of defining ourselves by the crap we were convinced we had to buy coming to an end and the new era of self expression and mutual interaction taking over. You can not see the other person computer on the internet. Even with video communications any background can be presented with you or even a representation of you as the foreground image.
Are mass consumerism and consumption to excess being relegated to simply piggish waste and offensive pollution of a psychologically diseased portion of the population, the sociopaths and the narcissists?
There is a reason it has to be muddy. Porting an app is a lot simpler than creating the original. If your app is doing well on windows mobile the employee would have to be an idiot not to port it to android and iphone.
Contractually it would be difficult to deny the port as they have stated the employee owns the IP and gets 70% of the income implying greater control with the employee. Making it unclear leaves room for M$ lawyers to bluff employees when necessary.
It is actually more complicated than that. Any company should be ideally run as three companies. Company 1 owns all the capital assets plus pays management, company 2 the business contracts and company 3 manages and pays the staff. Company 2 is the company that actually trades, and rents the assets and contracts management from company 1 and contracts the staff from company 3 which also contracts management from company 1.
You should be able to guess why it is structured in that manner. If contracts go bad, company 2 goes bankrupt but all of the assets are retained in company 1. Company 3 is kept in survival mode only, barely able to meet current employee contractual conditions let alone long term ones, those unpaid long term obligations actually become a bonus for company 1 when all the staff are dumped. All profits are constantly siphoned off from company 2 and 3, in building rentals and management fees so if anything goes wrong the companies are simply wound up with minimum loses to management. Sometimes (far to often) management just let's debt build up in company 2 and 3 until they collapse and then walks away with all the profits in company 1. Interesting side note, if the employees are unionised, the union has the funds to pursue company 1 to recover the employees lost pay, no union and the employees are screwed (mortgages and credit cards ensure they have no means to pursue company 1), another reason why companies hate unions.
Back on topic there is a major difference between trade schools and universities. If you want staff you can immediately employ trade schools are the only way to go. If you want employees with a broad knowledge and research skills, that you need to train, universities are the way to go. If you want the best employee pick the ones who do both in either order, university and trade schools for certification.
User choice is the new paradigm. More powerful computers should drive greater choice, want text based - used text based, want tabbed menus - use tabbed menus, want ribbon - use ribbon, want voice interface - use voice interface, want bubbles ? WTF.
let's be honest it is nothing more than a commercial for windows version 8. First the quick shameless theft of Xerox's graphical user interface and mouse and then nothing but imagine manipulation via touch screens and motion detection devices. Basically look and the pretty and be mesmerised by Mundies voice, you will obey, you will want windows 8, you will love windows 8, you will buy windows 8.
It was all rather meaningless and showed nothing that hasn't already by demonstrated in various sci-fi movies. Now back to reality, to get uniform output you must use uniform input. Once you turn the input into personal variables, you must now train the user and the device, the greater the variability, the greater the training required and ultimately the greater the frustration of failed attempts at input.
So unless windows 8 is coming out with a psychic interface, then it is just typical of the hype M$ comes out with for the initial launch of the pointless but you must by it version of windows, as long as it isn't as big a fuck up as vista. Next up will be the disappearing feature claims (all those features that never make it into the actual software sold.)
Hey M$, really want to impress me, write a better warranty, that actually guarantees something..
However it can be used as the basis of a search warrant, to re-obtain that exact same evidence legally. So the original evidence can not be used but once it is re-obtained direct from the source legally it can. Corruption occurs when sufficient time is allowed so that the original sourced can be cleansed or deleted.
As to blaming a president for everything, that is the whole idiotic US worship or celebrity, of the leader doing everything and taking credit for everything and via PR=B$ shifting blame as often as possible.
How big is the entire US Federal administration how many hundreds of thousands of people are part of it. At the end of the day, the reality is when things go wrong and you shove it in the President's face via protests and political activism, then he is a lying deceitful asshat for doing nothing to 'remedy' the situation, especially when that situations contravenes any promises he made.
So you don't blame political leaders for buggering it up unless they directly buggered it up, you blame them for failing to fix it and for failing to punish those that buggered it up. However it must forced sufficiently into there focus of attention that action on it outweighs their focus on other actions they are required to carry out as part of their role.
Media should focus less on celebrity worship of following only the leader and more on those persons who are actually culpable for those failures. So in this case who did it, who actually ordered it and they can explain there actions in light of the commander in chiefs public declarations (public orders).
Personally I trust some other sources more than mass media http://antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025. So it seems, what was reported was not what was said but hey, I am sure what was reported was calculated to sell better than what was actually said.
Back on topic of course, what is interesting is the problem of trying to get a 30 year old design to work, with Russian technology, using in part some German and US technology. Hardly surprising the first effort was not that successful when they started upping the power output to energy generation levels.
It likely would have been simpler to scrap the original plant and start from scratch, than trying to get that thirty year old design to work.
As for the military industrial complex propaganda, war, war, war, kill, kill, kill, we need to buy more shit, with which to blow up shit, so that we need to buy more shit to blow up, and of course WMD, WMD, WMD, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, oh no alien invasion (they propagandists will get there eventually).
The cost of implementation will be driven by how rapidly it is down and where the initial infrastructure is implemented are focused.
Focusing on high revenue areas in the early stages will return income into the development and help pay for it.
So the cost will largely be driven by take up of the service, now as the incumbent telco is scrapping it's copper, take up is guaranteed.
Benefit of fibre optic services is it will continue to provide high bandwidth communications in the even of major failures in satellite communications which are statistically inevitable.
Not that scary, it makes the the person claiming copyright infringement fully liable for disconnecting the wrong person or having insufficient proof to justify that disconnection and they have to pay the ISP's cost. They will also have to pay for warnings (low onus off proof) and of course for disconnection (high onus of proof that the person who 'contracted' the service is actually infringing). So the more action they want from the ISP the more it costs them, with no cost recovery.
In Australia that often sides with the consumer. For example, having problems resolving issues with your incumbent Telecom, contact the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman and that Telecom gets the bill for the time you spend with the ombudsman, you'll be surprised how quickly your problem get resolved.
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It seems perfectly reasonable for public libraries to become internet cafes, providing free shared internet services for those that can not afford it. This in conjunction with normal book services. The books definitely need to remain with people relying more than ever upon digital services, public libraries could become a haven for knowledge in the event of sustained power failure.
It is never about what society can afford, as elements within society will deem that society can afford nothing but to service them and damn everyone else (narcissists and sociopaths). It is about what society values and requires that it members contribute too, in order to remain a part of that society.
Whilst the opportunity no longer exists to exile the narcissists and sociopaths to the barbaric regions of the planet away from civilised people that share and care, we must still remember the lessons from the past and learn to isolate them from positions of control, governance and influence.
A logical evolutionary step, where physical capability took second place to mental flexibility. Those groups of human where physical capability took precedence over mental flexibility died out when adverse environmental conditions left them less capable of surviving then the mentally flexible brethren who could throw rocks, start a fire and put on and take off a fur coat.
The biggest driver for human evolution has likely been the recent (in evolutionary terms 2 million odd years) repeated ice ages giving precedence to mental agility of physical capability (being able to remain in a region and not having to pursue suitable climatic regions whilst stressed and against competition).
Straight off the bat it does look like PR=B$, "balance the performance of their networks, which allows the majority of customers to avoid being unfairly affected by a minority of heavy users". As everyone knows that is a lie, it has always been a lie and will always be a lie.
Heavy users drawn down 24 hours a day. The problem with bandwidth is peak load times, not the 24 hour a day load. Those peak time when everyone hooks up, like weekdays immediate after work and school finishes or early morning weekdays when everyone logs in and updates or lunch time when everyone stops work and does their private stuff. Even the 'heavy users' also log in at those times for the same reason, but the reality is to be a heavy users the bulk of your traffic is off peak times when it makes little difference, except of course to the corporate PR=B$.
Now when it comes to heavy users, let's differentiate between up-loaders and down-loaders. A heavy user up-loader is not a heavy user, they just have a lot of request coming in from light users seeking the information or service provided. Attacking up-loaders is all about anti-competitive practices, about killing off competing products and services, about making it impossible for example to create and publish their own content for sale by direct download, now that is the reality of the anti-net neutrality liars.
Perhaps because everything that is made in reality in actuality generally requires plane to be drawn and followed. So a FOSS 2d CAD package can be used by anyone that would also use a spread sheet and word processor, whether it is to draw plane of the future home or changes to their kitchen cupboards.
So that would be a cyberdefence unit, not a cyberwarfare unit or in this case as clearly delineated a cybersecurity unit. Whereas other country have been hyping attack, clearly the message was one of defence and providing computer security related expertise and investigation resources to state based police forces.
By definition that would make the Australia computer security team opposition to the US security team who wish to exploit security gaps to attack other countries rather than just being focused on preventing and investigating attacks. From a partnership in security focus could you never really trust the US unit, knowing that they would purposefully hide security weaknesses so that they can be exploited.
Especially when US government interests seems to be the dog wagged by the tail of US corporate interests. Especially when US corporate interests seem to have very little interest in the future of US citizens unless it is profitable for US corporate interests and obviously would have even less interest in the future of Australian citizens.
First get to the crux of the matter. Fossil fuels are not being subsidised, lets just through that lie away, corporate profits are being subsidised.
Those elected representative, elected upon the basis of unlimited advertising and PR=B$ funded by corporate dollars are simply and corruptly returning those campaign investments at something like a thousand to one return as corporate profits subsidies.
Corporations are generating returns of something like 10,000% profit on their campaign contributions. Corrupt politicians are literally burning up $10,000 for each dollar they can squirrel away in their own pockets. Things are more than just a little out of control in the US, where in reality by far the most profitable business is the corruption of the US democratic process. A multi-national mass media enterprise has even devoted an enormous part of it's resources to it, in the form of Fox not-News (not a disparaging title simply a valid observation of it's willingness to pretend advertising is news, of course it is not).
Which points to the exact problem of attempting to deal with a troll on any realistic level. A long pointless off topic thread, that the majority of forum attendees have no interest in reading.
So experience, provides the most logical answer in preserving forum integrity for the majority of users. Don't feed the trolls, completely pointless exercise, other than generating an off topic thread.
When necessary make use of comment moderation and probationary status (passing probation provides something to lose).
Your claim of troll supremacy also points to another issue, the best way to deal with one troll is not necessarily the best way to deal with ten or more trolls, creating nothing but a series of off topic threads.
If anyone has been paying attention lately, the maketdroids when they can not control a topic will attempt to create an off topic thread to fill the first page of comments in an attempt to drive of readers and serious comments, especially the professionally paranoid low skill government asshats. This now requires offtopic thread moderation, where the whole thread disappears into -1 oblivion.
Your thinking wrong kind of server. Adjust your thinking for no sound card, no video card, just an energy efficient CPU, hard disk drives and memory. Also no energy losses in a power supply, or its associated fan. In fact the only fan would be on the CPU and even that should be eliminated by with good design and an effective heat sink. Also adjust your DC conductivity for energy losses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Voltage_DC. Apparently there is only about a 30% difference between AC and DC for amperage loading over shorter distances, this versus removal of power supply and fans (transformer) to an external location where it can be run at hundreds of degree and be air-cooled. It all required a custom designed server unit made under contract.
Added to that new research has real added value. How much more bloody music do we need, there is already more out there than anyone can listen to in their lifetime. Do we actually need to promote the creation of more, do we not already have enough drunken drugged up minstrels to go around, do we actually need to create more and how exactly does that serve the needs of society.
Live music will thrive once the industry for dead music industry dies, has it not more than served any possible purpose and has it not in reality become more destructive than useful serving no purpose other than greed.
They are being taught another lesson. Once you make a foolish post on facebook, either admit it is false and get punished or make up a story and the teacher gets punished.
The school has not reach beyond school grounds, excluding school covered excursions and sporting events. Attempts by schools to censor children beyond school grounds should be targeted at parents and not at the children. Facebook is obviously not an appropriate social networking site for minors and Facebook management should be censured for allowing children to sign up with out parent consent and supervision.
In the Facebook age, silly naive people will get caught. The more reliant the become on computers finding conspiracies for them, the more subject to misinformation and obfuscation.
The reality is, you should only use open social networking when you are ready to go. Up until then more direct means of communication are safer.
If your live in a troubled country use external sources and people to pass on your information to a broader audience. Now it is global activism, so people can act locally via globally sourced support.
Revolutions occur because people no longer believe they are alone and without support.
It really only works for major data centres. Midi ones should have the servers embedded in external walls behind double glazed doors (internal atrium). Drawing in outside air, conditioning it and exhausting it or making use of the air temperature in a heat exchanger.
Another big improvement would be to go all DC in the server room, larger external transformers and redundant transformers (externalises a major heat source that can run at very high temperatures), simplifies battery backup and also adding solar panels and vertical wind turbines. Only other minor refinement, no aluminium conductors in the server room, not even in the equipment. Any loss of efficiency in conductors results in higher heat and wasted energy.
However once you are arrested and are unable to prove your identity that does leave you in a bit of a pickle. As the police should not let you go until they can establish who you are under existing immigration laws. The logic being if it can not be proved that you are a citizen then be default you become an illegal immigrant.subject to deportation once they can prove which country you belong to and they must accept you.
A voluntary ID card is reasonable as long as there are server penalties in place for privacy abuse, enabling the citizen to add medical records etc. for their personal benefit.
Data centres need to pay more attention to warehousing for objects of the size they handling. All the racks should be open and they should be accessed using automatic picking and packing systems.
Once the system is built automated picking system only should access the racks to pick defective units and return them to an air locked workstation and to insert the new data unit. This allows much higher racks and you can treat the whole data processing and storage area as an industrial process. Bringing in condition air at the required volume and temperature and then immediately exhausting it unless the high temperature air can be used (heating offices or a fitness centre the only realistic user of that volume and temperature of exhaust air).
This would be dependent upon the life cycle of units, the size of the data centre and, improved air handling efficiencies reducing running costs.
Two wrongs don't make a right but one wrong can certainly undo another wrong and from that can emerge a right.
There of course is the case of citizen's arrest. So citizen's digital search and obtaining of evidence where it is publicly clear that perpetrators are committing criminal activities and yet for unknown reasons government and police fail to act in an manner to kerb those criminal activities and even in some cases support those activities. Then of course the evidence is presented to the public for their assessment of the activities of the perpetrators of crime as well and the government that supports them.
The whole thing is questionable and undesirable but what to do when government and police fail to act upon the public commitment of crime by protected contractors. mass media, lobbyists, rogue public relations firms and of course corrupt politicians.
It is all rather passive and the only harm seems to be against those who profit by lies and for whom the truth is an anathema. They most certainly seem to wither and writhe when exposed to the public light of the truth.
Google is capable of validating the uniqueness and quality of those eyeballs (in fact if google were really cunning that could make a year of reviewing search results for free an entry requirement for employment). SEO can only find clones of the same low quality, deceitful, quisling eye balls. Wont take long to thin them out.
Speaking of computers could it be more than the recession that is influencing change. Is the internet and it's anti-marketing capability starting to have an impact on consumerism? As a result of the internet are people becoming more marketing resistant?
Is there a growing pressure for products that do last a life time, is the internet weakening fashion because all fashions remain alive on it and forever, is upgrade resistance driven by the growth in expressing ourselves by creating content and interacting with others?
So is the era of defining ourselves by the crap we were convinced we had to buy coming to an end and the new era of self expression and mutual interaction taking over. You can not see the other person computer on the internet. Even with video communications any background can be presented with you or even a representation of you as the foreground image.
Are mass consumerism and consumption to excess being relegated to simply piggish waste and offensive pollution of a psychologically diseased portion of the population, the sociopaths and the narcissists?
There is a reason it has to be muddy. Porting an app is a lot simpler than creating the original. If your app is doing well on windows mobile the employee would have to be an idiot not to port it to android and iphone.
Contractually it would be difficult to deny the port as they have stated the employee owns the IP and gets 70% of the income implying greater control with the employee. Making it unclear leaves room for M$ lawyers to bluff employees when necessary.
It is actually more complicated than that. Any company should be ideally run as three companies. Company 1 owns all the capital assets plus pays management, company 2 the business contracts and company 3 manages and pays the staff. Company 2 is the company that actually trades, and rents the assets and contracts management from company 1 and contracts the staff from company 3 which also contracts management from company 1.
You should be able to guess why it is structured in that manner. If contracts go bad, company 2 goes bankrupt but all of the assets are retained in company 1. Company 3 is kept in survival mode only, barely able to meet current employee contractual conditions let alone long term ones, those unpaid long term obligations actually become a bonus for company 1 when all the staff are dumped. All profits are constantly siphoned off from company 2 and 3, in building rentals and management fees so if anything goes wrong the companies are simply wound up with minimum loses to management. Sometimes (far to often) management just let's debt build up in company 2 and 3 until they collapse and then walks away with all the profits in company 1. Interesting side note, if the employees are unionised, the union has the funds to pursue company 1 to recover the employees lost pay, no union and the employees are screwed (mortgages and credit cards ensure they have no means to pursue company 1), another reason why companies hate unions.
Back on topic there is a major difference between trade schools and universities. If you want staff you can immediately employ trade schools are the only way to go. If you want employees with a broad knowledge and research skills, that you need to train, universities are the way to go. If you want the best employee pick the ones who do both in either order, university and trade schools for certification.
User choice is the new paradigm. More powerful computers should drive greater choice, want text based - used text based, want tabbed menus - use tabbed menus, want ribbon - use ribbon, want voice interface - use voice interface, want bubbles ? WTF.
let's be honest it is nothing more than a commercial for windows version 8. First the quick shameless theft of Xerox's graphical user interface and mouse and then nothing but imagine manipulation via touch screens and motion detection devices. Basically look and the pretty and be mesmerised by Mundies voice, you will obey, you will want windows 8, you will love windows 8, you will buy windows 8.
It was all rather meaningless and showed nothing that hasn't already by demonstrated in various sci-fi movies. Now back to reality, to get uniform output you must use uniform input. Once you turn the input into personal variables, you must now train the user and the device, the greater the variability, the greater the training required and ultimately the greater the frustration of failed attempts at input.
So unless windows 8 is coming out with a psychic interface, then it is just typical of the hype M$ comes out with for the initial launch of the pointless but you must by it version of windows, as long as it isn't as big a fuck up as vista. Next up will be the disappearing feature claims (all those features that never make it into the actual software sold.)
Hey M$, really want to impress me, write a better warranty, that actually guarantees something..
However it can be used as the basis of a search warrant, to re-obtain that exact same evidence legally. So the original evidence can not be used but once it is re-obtained direct from the source legally it can. Corruption occurs when sufficient time is allowed so that the original sourced can be cleansed or deleted.
As to blaming a president for everything, that is the whole idiotic US worship or celebrity, of the leader doing everything and taking credit for everything and via PR=B$ shifting blame as often as possible.
How big is the entire US Federal administration how many hundreds of thousands of people are part of it. At the end of the day, the reality is when things go wrong and you shove it in the President's face via protests and political activism, then he is a lying deceitful asshat for doing nothing to 'remedy' the situation, especially when that situations contravenes any promises he made.
So you don't blame political leaders for buggering it up unless they directly buggered it up, you blame them for failing to fix it and for failing to punish those that buggered it up. However it must forced sufficiently into there focus of attention that action on it outweighs their focus on other actions they are required to carry out as part of their role.
Media should focus less on celebrity worship of following only the leader and more on those persons who are actually culpable for those failures. So in this case who did it, who actually ordered it and they can explain there actions in light of the commander in chiefs public declarations (public orders).
Personally I trust some other sources more than mass media http://antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025. So it seems, what was reported was not what was said but hey, I am sure what was reported was calculated to sell better than what was actually said.
Back on topic of course, what is interesting is the problem of trying to get a 30 year old design to work, with Russian technology, using in part some German and US technology. Hardly surprising the first effort was not that successful when they started upping the power output to energy generation levels.
It likely would have been simpler to scrap the original plant and start from scratch, than trying to get that thirty year old design to work.
As for the military industrial complex propaganda, war, war, war, kill, kill, kill, we need to buy more shit, with which to blow up shit, so that we need to buy more shit to blow up, and of course WMD, WMD, WMD, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, oh no alien invasion (they propagandists will get there eventually).
The cost of implementation will be driven by how rapidly it is down and where the initial infrastructure is implemented are focused.
Focusing on high revenue areas in the early stages will return income into the development and help pay for it.
So the cost will largely be driven by take up of the service, now as the incumbent telco is scrapping it's copper, take up is guaranteed.
Benefit of fibre optic services is it will continue to provide high bandwidth communications in the even of major failures in satellite communications which are statistically inevitable.
That would be Italy and Greece and their allies. It is not war, simply an increase in pressure and the elimination of the jamming devices.
Not that scary, it makes the the person claiming copyright infringement fully liable for disconnecting the wrong person or having insufficient proof to justify that disconnection and they have to pay the ISP's cost. They will also have to pay for warnings (low onus off proof) and of course for disconnection (high onus of proof that the person who 'contracted' the service is actually infringing). So the more action they want from the ISP the more it costs them, with no cost recovery.
In Australia that often sides with the consumer. For example, having problems resolving issues with your incumbent Telecom, contact the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman and that Telecom gets the bill for the time you spend with the ombudsman, you'll be surprised how quickly your problem get resolved.