However, when this is done across all of California for various projects, it probably does cost the state hundreds of millions. One of the videos had a guy 'hosting' a show about the bridge. And intimated there would be more videos like that. It was not amateur hour either, and probably had a healthy budget in at least the tens of thousands. This stuff isn't cheap to do like that. And the web animations and graphics shows. You should know as well as I that web designers putting together high grade animated graphics are also expensive; to the tune of around a thousand or more a day. And that's whether the graphics guy gets the money or the contracting firm he belongs to. You know a good web designer of any stripe won't be working for government pay. Anyway, each video I saw there likely took a few weeks to create each. Add this up across the state... Static pictures and text will get the idea across and keep it open to the public. As far a doing it right... I already said that about unemployed artists... they want to do it right and that costs money. Just because you are unemployed, when you get work you can't sell yourself cheap. Otherwise it drags down the market for everyone else as well as for any future job you might try for.
I noticed that on the bay bridge dot org web site they had a bunch of high production value movies, animations, etc. presenting the bridge as well as the construction efforts. These aren't cheap to produce. I wonder how much money is wasted making beautiful 'feel good' presentations that could help reduce costs... maybe this is where some of the funds go. I suspect there are a ton of projects that California runs where they have spent several hundred thousand or even millions on 'feel good' movies and web sites. I'm not saying keeping the public informed is not important. But it kind of looks like they think because they have Hollywood they need to make the audiovisual aspect Hollywood grade. Or maybe it is a way to employ all the film school graduates and keep them off the street. It just seemed a tad much to explain that they are building a bridge.
IBM is mainly a hardware vendor, and I see no problem with them competing on that level and reletively little for the software. Will IBM machines force users to keep Ubuntu installed and keep other OS installs off of their machines?
While I disagree with his philosophy completely, I am still civil enough not to "boycott" his product
That kind of thinking is how someone could rationalize all sorts of fucked up things like helping Ted Bundy get dates. I don't like what he does, but he is a lonely tortured person who shouldn't have to be alone. Yeah yeah extreme... but you need to be to get through to "civil" people.
And are far as the west thinking Putin is another Stalin, generally the west believes in free political dialogue, the government not interfering with the media (not shutting them down if the don't like what they have to say about you), and not interfering with other legitimate political parties, like throwing their leaders in jail on trumped up tax charges or chasing others into exile, and generally frowns upon killing detractors with radioactive isotopes while they are residing in foreign countries, or using goons and thugs (who often are also the police) to stop free association and political protests. So if you say many in the west think that Putin is a carbon copy of Stalin, then you'd be wrong. It is probably more correct to say that we think he is a Stalin wanna-be, but can't get away with it... yet. But he is working on it. Not only is he as tall or short as Napoleon, he has the complex as well.
A product of the KGB and defence ministry of the Soviet era. His views make sense then... for a KGB apparatchik. He probably backs the idea of returning Putin back to president (even if he hasn't really stopped running Russia). And he runs the company that many people are 'securing' their computers with. Think about it folks. About as smart as North American bankers offshoring the programming of their financial systems to Chinese and Indian programmers.
The point is, that many people want to set limits because they are not capable of believing there is 'more' in the world. Those that do believe are the ones who actually come up with the truly novel innovations and discoveries. Someone out there has deemed that they have discovered the limit of something. They are like the crowd that is always telling people what they can't do.
read the comments below yours and you will see that while his person may have made this up, in fact, it was an accurate depiction. it is happening in Ontario right now, where they privatized driving centres.
And by the way... before Bush Jr left the White House, he made sure things were in place so that the new president would have access to those huge volumes of cash to use to bail out the banks and Wall Street scum bag factories. He is more guilty of the spending spree than the hapless person who inherited his fuck up.
Oh sure, Obama inherits the shit economy that is the fallout of the corporate incompetence, corruption, and criminal recklessness based on the financial policies of Bush Jr and Greenspan. So now the fact that bailout money is spent to prevent a run on the banks and a very probably depression, you want to tell us that it is Obama's fault that the deficit has gone up. Just leaving banks to fail and encouraging protectionism would have been an option... the same option that was chosen in 1929. And that sure worked out well back then, didn't it. Get your head out of your ass.
I work for a company that is marketing this to insurance companies now. It uses GPS to track where you drive, how fast, how aggressively you accelerate or break, how far you drive, when you drive, etc. etc. etc. And it will shortly hook into the ODB2 to record all the data your car's computer records as well. And to top it off, it routinely uploads the data to a central server that the insurance companies can access, allowing them crunch all the data to their hearts content. The hook is that they will lower your rates if they can watch you. My imagination pictures other billing practices once everyone has one in their car(s).:/
The way it is being reported on the TV news channels in Canada is that this is more of an informational change than a change in what facebook does (or what its third party apps do). That is, the changes from what it sounds like are more along the lines of making sure the users are better informed on where all your personal information, and that of your friends, etc is being sent, who is going to look at it and mine it and dice and slice it and use it and... you get the picture. It doesn't sound like they are being told to stop doing anything. An example is that facebook will have to explicitly tell you that when you deactivate your account, your info doesn't go anywhere and is still retained on the facebook servers (and it doesn't mean they will show you porn or curse at you when you deactivate your account:) ). Stuff like that.
Canadian elections don't have to happen for up to five years. An indication that you don't like to think deeply about answers.:) Canada constitutes about 12 million facebook users. Not huge given that they have around a quarter billion users world wide, or so it is reported here in Canada. However it is enough to make a big enough dent in their profits so that change is easier than cutting off Canada from their services. Similar to how California, while having around 37 million people out of 330 million in the U.S. can still significantly influence products sold to all of the U.S. A good example is when they enact legislation mandating specific changes to say, car safety features, the auto makers don't stop selling to California. It is a big enough market that the car makers make the changes, since they are cheaper than not selling to California. It is the only reason that many safety and environmental changes made with respect to autos have been made in the U.S. Wow, a legit car example!
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It would be insightful if it wasn't redundant. The very first post said this first...
Adolf who? Oh sorry, I didn't know we we are supposed to selectively repress hitlery^h^h^h^h^hstory. (The first step in repeating ourselves.)
And this is why HTML5 video won't be universally adopted. Some sites don't want it to be easy.
I never said hundreds of millions. Read it again.
However, when this is done across all of California for various projects, it probably does cost the state hundreds of millions. One of the videos had a guy 'hosting' a show about the bridge. And intimated there would be more videos like that. It was not amateur hour either, and probably had a healthy budget in at least the tens of thousands. This stuff isn't cheap to do like that. And the web animations and graphics shows. You should know as well as I that web designers putting together high grade animated graphics are also expensive; to the tune of around a thousand or more a day. And that's whether the graphics guy gets the money or the contracting firm he belongs to. You know a good web designer of any stripe won't be working for government pay. Anyway, each video I saw there likely took a few weeks to create each. Add this up across the state... Static pictures and text will get the idea across and keep it open to the public. As far a doing it right... I already said that about unemployed artists... they want to do it right and that costs money. Just because you are unemployed, when you get work you can't sell yourself cheap. Otherwise it drags down the market for everyone else as well as for any future job you might try for.
I noticed that on the bay bridge dot org web site they had a bunch of high production value movies, animations, etc. presenting the bridge as well as the construction efforts. These aren't cheap to produce. I wonder how much money is wasted making beautiful 'feel good' presentations that could help reduce costs... maybe this is where some of the funds go. I suspect there are a ton of projects that California runs where they have spent several hundred thousand or even millions on 'feel good' movies and web sites. I'm not saying keeping the public informed is not important. But it kind of looks like they think because they have Hollywood they need to make the audiovisual aspect Hollywood grade. Or maybe it is a way to employ all the film school graduates and keep them off the street. It just seemed a tad much to explain that they are building a bridge.
Wrong. And getting more wrong every year. IBM is now mainly a services and software company. Service and software generate at least four times the revenue than from systems and technology.
That kind of thinking is how someone could rationalize all sorts of fucked up things like helping Ted Bundy get dates. I don't like what he does, but he is a lonely tortured person who shouldn't have to be alone. Yeah yeah extreme... but you need to be to get through to "civil" people.
As far as the approval ratings, it is easy to publish figures like this when you use your power in government to shut down any media outlets that speak out against you and use goons and thugs and police state practices to silence critics. Besides, given the right questions or the right analysis, statisticians can show anything to be true. Especially if you own them. Example: do you think Putin is doing a better job than Yeltsin (who was a drunk clown)? Yes. There your go, another tick in the approval column!
And are far as the west thinking Putin is another Stalin, generally the west believes in free political dialogue, the government not interfering with the media (not shutting them down if the don't like what they have to say about you), and not interfering with other legitimate political parties, like throwing their leaders in jail on trumped up tax charges or chasing others into exile, and generally frowns upon killing detractors with radioactive isotopes while they are residing in foreign countries, or using goons and thugs (who often are also the police) to stop free association and political protests. So if you say many in the west think that Putin is a carbon copy of Stalin, then you'd be wrong. It is probably more correct to say that we think he is a Stalin wanna-be, but can't get away with it... yet. But he is working on it. Not only is he as tall or short as Napoleon, he has the complex as well.
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From the Wikipedia article on Kaspersky, it says, "Kaspersky graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science, an institute co-sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Defence and the KGB[1] in 1987."
A product of the KGB and defence ministry of the Soviet era. His views make sense then... for a KGB apparatchik. He probably backs the idea of returning Putin back to president (even if he hasn't really stopped running Russia). And he runs the company that many people are 'securing' their computers with. Think about it folks. About as smart as North American bankers offshoring the programming of their financial systems to Chinese and Indian programmers.
nice troll... now tell me all the things we can't do.
The point is, that many people want to set limits because they are not capable of believing there is 'more' in the world. Those that do believe are the ones who actually come up with the truly novel innovations and discoveries. Someone out there has deemed that they have discovered the limit of something. They are like the crowd that is always telling people what they can't do.
Get this through your head: If man were meant to fly, God would have given him wings. What? Oh. Never mind.
read the comments below yours and you will see that while his person may have made this up, in fact, it was an accurate depiction. it is happening in Ontario right now, where they privatized driving centres.
Please provide an example or reference.
I'm feeling a burning sensation. Has anyone seen my Faraday Underwear.
Thank you... he's here all week. Try the fish.
And by the way... before Bush Jr left the White House, he made sure things were in place so that the new president would have access to those huge volumes of cash to use to bail out the banks and Wall Street scum bag factories. He is more guilty of the spending spree than the hapless person who inherited his fuck up.
Oh sure, Obama inherits the shit economy that is the fallout of the corporate incompetence, corruption, and criminal recklessness based on the financial policies of Bush Jr and Greenspan. So now the fact that bailout money is spent to prevent a run on the banks and a very probably depression, you want to tell us that it is Obama's fault that the deficit has gone up. Just leaving banks to fail and encouraging protectionism would have been an option... the same option that was chosen in 1929. And that sure worked out well back then, didn't it. Get your head out of your ass.
On board diagnostics.
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Figured I better add this since I myself don't appreciate undefined TLAs. Three letter acronyms
I work for a company that is marketing this to insurance companies now. It uses GPS to track where you drive, how fast, how aggressively you accelerate or break, how far you drive, when you drive, etc. etc. etc. And it will shortly hook into the ODB2 to record all the data your car's computer records as well. And to top it off, it routinely uploads the data to a central server that the insurance companies can access, allowing them crunch all the data to their hearts content. The hook is that they will lower your rates if they can watch you. My imagination pictures other billing practices once everyone has one in their car(s). :/
The way it is being reported on the TV news channels in Canada is that this is more of an informational change than a change in what facebook does (or what its third party apps do). That is, the changes from what it sounds like are more along the lines of making sure the users are better informed on where all your personal information, and that of your friends, etc is being sent, who is going to look at it and mine it and dice and slice it and use it and ... you get the picture. It doesn't sound like they are being told to stop doing anything. An example is that facebook will have to explicitly tell you that when you deactivate your account, your info doesn't go anywhere and is still retained on the facebook servers (and it doesn't mean they will show you porn or curse at you when you deactivate your account :) ). Stuff like that.
Canadian elections don't have to happen for up to five years. An indication that you don't like to think deeply about answers. :) Canada constitutes about 12 million facebook users. Not huge given that they have around a quarter billion users world wide, or so it is reported here in Canada. However it is enough to make a big enough dent in their profits so that change is easier than cutting off Canada from their services. Similar to how California, while having around 37 million people out of 330 million in the U.S. can still significantly influence products sold to all of the U.S. A good example is when they enact legislation mandating specific changes to say, car safety features, the auto makers don't stop selling to California. It is a big enough market that the car makers make the changes, since they are cheaper than not selling to California. It is the only reason that many safety and environmental changes made with respect to autos have been made in the U.S. Wow, a legit car example!