What about costs that aren't inherent, such as defective units that have to be replaced for free, shipping costs on their end, R and D costs, that get transferred into cost, plus the fact that they have no real competitors to have a price war with. This isn't even including workers that will handle any of the various processes that the kindle touches from inception to shipping it out to consumers.
I remember one of my first computer courses in school where we were taught computer history. I still remember the professor telling us about the early days of Microsoft and how it didn't take long for them to start ripping off ideas, only to then buy the company that was suing them.
I'm just glad they're finally taking this sort of shit seriously. With plans for fighter jets being stolen by hackers making front page news, reports that the pentagon spends boat loads of money at reactive threat defense, our [insert computer buzz word]-security at a national level is severely lacking. Even movies like transformers seem to think that the best hackers are still fat dudes living with their grandparents and no one at any national department is capable of anything.
Being able to push more content, move more data, combined with data files being that much larger, is the real driving force behind this push. Especially considering places like Hulu and google make a large portion of their revenue by pushing ad related content with everything else, the more they can push, the more they will make.
ITIL is great and all, but might be a bit monolithic for a first time project manager, especially working solo. Your other recommendations are right on track though.
All of this is all well and good, but I'm holding out for a 3D interface, something that can really take advantage and create true 3D rather than depth to what is essentially still a 2D image no matter how many polygons you throw at it.
This sounds like we're getting that much closer to a human computer interface. How long till we go a little more invasive and have implants that let us "jack in" ala matrix, or andromeda, or any other Sci-Fi show or movie, and start interacting merely by thinking. In the next few hundred years we could turn ourselves into fat unmoving beings plugged from birth to death into computers. Till solar flares overload the system and kill us all at least... Either way, very interesting to see where this line of research takes us as a species.
The problem with this sort of blocking is that first its very arbitrary, and second it often catches a lot legitimate sites. We discussed this not too long ago where its not even as simple as undoing a block. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/1239212
There has been a rush to really start cracking down on what people can do at work or school via the internet. Most often these implementations are reactionary measures to a discovery that people are doing all sorts of things that admin types deem as unacceptable, although in many cases people were never actually informed of this... Anyway, the root here is really a lack of understanding and communication on what is actually expected of people, and how this goal should be gone about.
As a network admin I can't tell you how useful it is to have at least a little data about where something might have come from in the event of a problem arising. Three days worth of data is hardly something to get in a twit about, and honestly the specifics of the data probably isn't even looked at that much.
Hiring gang members to be part of a vice squad? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for hiring black hats for security jobs, as they can often be the best for the job, the problem is keeping a close watch on the few that would double cross if the rewards were good enough. If I were them I'd try and recruit those that are finding vulnerabilities and reporting them, rather then prosecuting them which too often happens.
It probably wasn't intentional, most likely they pushed developers to focus first on microsoft based search engines, but really, I also find it hard to believe not a single person would have tried google first. I doubt it was a big conspiracy, but rather they knew about it but didn't want to spend anytime fixing it.
I suppose that depends on where the live, quite a bit of the Easy coast, and certain parts of the west coast are pretty packed. President Obama seems to be wanting to focus this on high density areas at least initially. Also, it would seem to follow that allowing an ease of transportation would allow for less densely populated areas to find at least some benefit either from people coming in that otherwise wouldn't or making more highly populated areas more accessible.
With services planes consistently becoming more unbearable, and trains plagued by delays and generally slow transit times, roughly the same as driving, this really is a great idea. I would love to be able to to have more of the country easily accessible, via a quick, easy to use, and hopefully not too expensive, travel network, without all the hassle of going to an airport. The US is sadly way behind on the times when it comes to rail.
I'm holding out for devices that can be charged by the heat of being in my pocket. I have a few candy bars that have found out just how hot it can be in there...
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What about costs that aren't inherent, such as defective units that have to be replaced for free, shipping costs on their end, R and D costs, that get transferred into cost, plus the fact that they have no real competitors to have a price war with. This isn't even including workers that will handle any of the various processes that the kindle touches from inception to shipping it out to consumers.
I remember one of my first computer courses in school where we were taught computer history. I still remember the professor telling us about the early days of Microsoft and how it didn't take long for them to start ripping off ideas, only to then buy the company that was suing them.
I'm just glad they're finally taking this sort of shit seriously. With plans for fighter jets being stolen by hackers making front page news, reports that the pentagon spends boat loads of money at reactive threat defense, our [insert computer buzz word]-security at a national level is severely lacking. Even movies like transformers seem to think that the best hackers are still fat dudes living with their grandparents and no one at any national department is capable of anything.
Ok, but I warn you, the size of the news letter increases exponentially every day.
Being able to push more content, move more data, combined with data files being that much larger, is the real driving force behind this push. Especially considering places like Hulu and google make a large portion of their revenue by pushing ad related content with everything else, the more they can push, the more they will make.
ITIL is great and all, but might be a bit monolithic for a first time project manager, especially working solo. Your other recommendations are right on track though.
A bunch of fat, cheetos eating super hero's I can identify with!
All of this is all well and good, but I'm holding out for a 3D interface, something that can really take advantage and create true 3D rather than depth to what is essentially still a 2D image no matter how many polygons you throw at it.
This sounds like we're getting that much closer to a human computer interface. How long till we go a little more invasive and have implants that let us "jack in" ala matrix, or andromeda, or any other Sci-Fi show or movie, and start interacting merely by thinking. In the next few hundred years we could turn ourselves into fat unmoving beings plugged from birth to death into computers. Till solar flares overload the system and kill us all at least... Either way, very interesting to see where this line of research takes us as a species.
Haven't you heard of the multiple quantum slope theory? The slippery slope can start an infinite number of times over an infinite number of slopes!
The problem with this sort of blocking is that first its very arbitrary, and second it often catches a lot legitimate sites. We discussed this not too long ago where its not even as simple as undoing a block. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/1239212
For my Smell-O-Scope!
I totally made a joke about this a few days ago... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1201373&cid=27599775
Hahaha, that totally made me laugh. Well played!
There has been a rush to really start cracking down on what people can do at work or school via the internet. Most often these implementations are reactionary measures to a discovery that people are doing all sorts of things that admin types deem as unacceptable, although in many cases people were never actually informed of this... Anyway, the root here is really a lack of understanding and communication on what is actually expected of people, and how this goal should be gone about.
As a network admin I can't tell you how useful it is to have at least a little data about where something might have come from in the event of a problem arising. Three days worth of data is hardly something to get in a twit about, and honestly the specifics of the data probably isn't even looked at that much.
Hiring gang members to be part of a vice squad? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for hiring black hats for security jobs, as they can often be the best for the job, the problem is keeping a close watch on the few that would double cross if the rewards were good enough. If I were them I'd try and recruit those that are finding vulnerabilities and reporting them, rather then prosecuting them which too often happens.
Anti-Virus is Dead.
It probably wasn't intentional, most likely they pushed developers to focus first on microsoft based search engines, but really, I also find it hard to believe not a single person would have tried google first. I doubt it was a big conspiracy, but rather they knew about it but didn't want to spend anytime fixing it.
I suppose that depends on where the live, quite a bit of the Easy coast, and certain parts of the west coast are pretty packed. President Obama seems to be wanting to focus this on high density areas at least initially. Also, it would seem to follow that allowing an ease of transportation would allow for less densely populated areas to find at least some benefit either from people coming in that otherwise wouldn't or making more highly populated areas more accessible.
With services planes consistently becoming more unbearable, and trains plagued by delays and generally slow transit times, roughly the same as driving, this really is a great idea. I would love to be able to to have more of the country easily accessible, via a quick, easy to use, and hopefully not too expensive, travel network, without all the hassle of going to an airport. The US is sadly way behind on the times when it comes to rail.
Watch out, they might sue your grandmother.
A botnet that just works.
I'm holding out for devices that can be charged by the heat of being in my pocket. I have a few candy bars that have found out just how hot it can be in there...
Or is that just wishful thinking?