Amortize that year and a half of development over 1,000 balls, figure it takes a day or two to put one together once you know how, and it's still under $2,000 per copy to produce 1,000. How much does the American Department of "Homeland Security" pay for one day's theatre at LAX?
When human beings are offered the opportunity to work at secret agencies, on secret things, they will take advantage of the ability to keep their mistakes secret.
That is why secrecy in government is bad, and transparency in government is good. It doesn't take Einstein to understand this.
The United States government has poured billions (trillions?) into secrecy. That is bad.
An entire college using a free service, and not getting instant customer service?
Pay. Find out early how your vendor responds to problems. Walk if you're not satisfied.
But this hardly sounds like an argument against cloud services. For the worst two years of my life, I worked for a completely inept IT department. It was of negative value to the larger organization, and I mean that literally. If you had simply fired the entire staff, the organization of 1,000 would have found some superior way to muddle through after a week or two of panic, and it would not have cost anywhere near what the IT budget had been.
The strangely accented "British" narrator, combined with the scenes of extruding timed to coincide with the narrator's use of the word "exrement," set the stage for the flash of refrigerator door labeled 'SHIT BURGER'.
Thanks for posting links to the articles. Given the state of the news media today, though, I'd encourage people to check out the actual words of Halderman and his fellow panelists. And regarding a separate comment... if I was in error about router vs. terminal server, and SQL vs shell injection, my apology.
Welcome on board Budget Air's glass glider. As is always the case on Budget Air, bathroom use is completely complimentary. Curtains may be purchased from any flight attendant.
In the United States, we are supposedly treated as innocent until proven guilty. But the early comments I see here seem to indicate that, despite the government of Sweden saying he is not charged with any sex crime, he should be treated as guilty until (an impossibility) proven innocent.
I hope those of you who feel that way understand that whatever values you claim to support, they are not what were traditionally considered "American".
Yes, exactly. That's exactly why I insist every bus I ride in must have a co-driver. Wouldn't want to crash due to the driver having a coronary.
But seriously, folks, I think this is one of the few issues the market will actually handle well. I doubt many people are going to take the only airline that doesn't have copilots.
Yes, I know. I meant grass. My earlier correction appears to have disappeared.
No, I am not a luddite. I am all for using technology to improve the world. But I am not for using technology to develop non-food versions of food, so that food companies can profit by reducing the nutritional value of their products.
I'm lucky enough to live in an area where real food is grown in the ground, pulled out, washed and sold. That means I don't have to buy food where sugar has been replaced by corn syrup (because it's just as good!), oils have been replaced with whatever is cheapest (because it's just as good), cows have been fed corn -- or worse -- instead of wheat (because it's just as good!).
Every time industry tries to improve food, it seems to make things worse.
It's one thing to try to develop high yield crops, but engineering high tech food to reduce Americans' calorie intake is insane, when you could simply put sin taxes on soda.
"Would it be better to find new and amazing ways to create energy from resources now, or would it be better for humanity to first learn to live within our means as oil runs out?"
It seems reasonable to me that active data and programs (items used day to day) will be stored on SSD, and perhaps spinning hard drives will remain parts of systems with their role being to store all the programs and data that we want available, but only use infrequently or never. Perhaps the OS will only spin the hard drive up once on system startup (to build a directory on SSD), and then again if anything on the drive is actually needed.
So this is what the religions were talking about when they talked about hell. Everyone lives forever, one hundred people have all the money, and Sarah Palin is President-for-Life.
If Google's top management denies it, and it's discovered to be true, they will have discredited themselves far more than if they remain silent. So public denials do have value. You don't know that they are truthful, but you do know that the deniers were willing to tie their future credibility to the denial.
If there is no back door, Google should deny it unequivocally. If Google does not deny it, unequivocally, I think it would be appropriate to change the way we (many of us) think of Google.
For truly national news, only a few papers report it: the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated
The New York Times, and the other national news sources, no longer "report": as Stephen Colbert pointed out at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, they transcribe what the administration in power tells them.
Just look at the way the Times has tacked in its objective reporting over the past decade. WMD? Sure, why not. We are now beginning to see the exposes from eight years of Bush administration, material that might have been of use six or seven years ago. I'm sure we'll see the exposes of the current administration once the Republicans are back in power.
I see no reason to pay the Times. I'll be happy to pay reliable reporters directly, as the new models of paying for valuable reporting begin to emerge. Maybe those new models will even lead to some information getting out.
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Amortize that year and a half of development over 1,000 balls, figure it takes a day or two to put one together once you know how, and it's still under $2,000 per copy to produce 1,000. How much does the American Department of "Homeland Security" pay for one day's theatre at LAX?
When one failed, you could roll out the next. Or you could triple the price to better the specs.
$1,390 is less than the cost of taking a congresscrook to "dinner" to show them your proposal for a $100 million version of this.
TFA sounds like this is one guy working with consumer parts. I wonder what an American military subcontractor would want to develop this.
And the article cites a price for the prototype of $1,390.
TFA sounds like this is one guy working with consumer parts. I wonder what an American military subcontractor would want to develop this.
When human beings are offered the opportunity to work at secret agencies, on secret things, they will take advantage of the ability to keep their mistakes secret.
That is why secrecy in government is bad, and transparency in government is good. It doesn't take Einstein to understand this.
The United States government has poured billions (trillions?) into secrecy. That is bad.
An entire college using a free service, and not getting instant customer service?
Pay. Find out early how your vendor responds to problems. Walk if you're not satisfied.
But this hardly sounds like an argument against cloud services. For the worst two years of my life, I worked for a completely inept IT department. It was of negative value to the larger organization, and I mean that literally. If you had simply fired the entire staff, the organization of 1,000 would have found some superior way to muddle through after a week or two of panic, and it would not have cost anywhere near what the IT budget had been.
The strangely accented "British" narrator, combined with the scenes of extruding timed to coincide with the narrator's use of the word "exrement," set the stage for the flash of refrigerator door labeled 'SHIT BURGER'.
Thanks for posting links to the articles. Given the state of the news media today, though, I'd encourage people to check out the actual words of Halderman and his fellow panelists. And regarding a separate comment... if I was in error about router vs. terminal server, and SQL vs shell injection, my apology.
Welcome on board Budget Air's glass glider. As is always the case on Budget Air, bathroom use is completely complimentary. Curtains may be purchased from any flight attendant.
In the United States, we are supposedly treated as innocent until proven guilty. But the early comments I see here seem to indicate that, despite the government of Sweden saying he is not charged with any sex crime, he should be treated as guilty until (an impossibility) proven innocent.
I hope those of you who feel that way understand that whatever values you claim to support, they are not what were traditionally considered "American".
Yes, exactly. That's exactly why I insist every bus I ride in must have a co-driver. Wouldn't want to crash due to the driver having a coronary.
But seriously, folks, I think this is one of the few issues the market will actually handle well. I doubt many people are going to take the only airline that doesn't have copilots.
Would you have been as quick to click if the headline had read "phospholipid wrapped transistor powered by ATP"? Would scattering "nano" have helped?
So what would you like to write about?
->Google.
(Turns red.) Oh, my.
->I hear they've banned Microsoft Windows.
(Turns blue.) Oh, dear.
->Something about security, I think.
(Turns invisible.)
->Bye now.
Yes, I know. I meant grass. My earlier correction appears to have disappeared.
No, I am not a luddite. I am all for using technology to improve the world. But I am not for using technology to develop non-food versions of food, so that food companies can profit by reducing the nutritional value of their products.
I'm lucky enough to live in an area where real food is grown in the ground, pulled out, washed and sold. That means I don't have to buy food where sugar has been replaced by corn syrup (because it's just as good!), oils have been replaced with whatever is cheapest (because it's just as good), cows have been fed corn -- or worse -- instead of wheat (because it's just as good!).
Every time industry tries to improve food, it seems to make things worse.
It's one thing to try to develop high yield crops, but engineering high tech food to reduce Americans' calorie intake is insane, when you could simply put sin taxes on soda.
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With the proper alterations, the text of the bible turns out to be a child porn photograph. Ban it.
"Would it be better to find new and amazing ways to create energy from resources now, or would it be better for humanity to first learn to live within our means as oil runs out?"
Both/and, not either/or.
It seems reasonable to me that active data and programs (items used day to day) will be stored on SSD, and perhaps spinning hard drives will remain parts of systems with their role being to store all the programs and data that we want available, but only use infrequently or never. Perhaps the OS will only spin the hard drive up once on system startup (to build a directory on SSD), and then again if anything on the drive is actually needed.
So this is what the religions were talking about when they talked about hell. Everyone lives forever, one hundred people have all the money, and Sarah Palin is President-for-Life.
Yeah. To change a lightbulb you have to change five screws and a bezel. What's one more screw?
If you received a blank fax, wouldn't you word the response like this, instead of saying it was upside down?
"Your facsimile transmission came through as blank pages, please resubmit."
If Google's top management denies it, and it's discovered to be true, they will have discredited themselves far more than if they remain silent. So public denials do have value. You don't know that they are truthful, but you do know that the deniers were willing to tie their future credibility to the denial.
If there is no back door, Google should deny it unequivocally. If Google does not deny it, unequivocally, I think it would be appropriate to change the way we (many of us) think of Google.
For truly national news, only a few papers report it: the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated
The New York Times, and the other national news sources, no longer "report": as Stephen Colbert pointed out at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, they transcribe what the administration in power tells them.
Just look at the way the Times has tacked in its objective reporting over the past decade. WMD? Sure, why not. We are now beginning to see the exposes from eight years of Bush administration, material that might have been of use six or seven years ago. I'm sure we'll see the exposes of the current administration once the Republicans are back in power.
I see no reason to pay the Times. I'll be happy to pay reliable reporters directly, as the new models of paying for valuable reporting begin to emerge. Maybe those new models will even lead to some information getting out.