I took my Mustang out there about ten years ago. It was fun but I never really got the salt out of all of the places it found a way into. Protip: Don't drive there in early morning except in high summer - the salt is wet and sticks like nothing you've ever seen before.
No exaggeration. I haven't bought any books recently, but I was paying between $30 and $50 for Computer Science texts when I went to college in the '70s. My tuition at the time was less than half of what I was paying for textbooks every semester.
And? Vincent Price's name, face and voice obviously was of some benefit - otherwise they would have hired some guy that looked like him and looped in dialog from someone who sounded like him. They wanted Vincent Price, they had to pay for Vincent Price. Or maybe they thought that being Iron Maiden was enough...
And I have had three TVs over the past thirty years. In that time, I have had to fix or replace VCRs, LaserDisc players, TiVos and just about everything else that I've plugged into them because of a failure of one sort or another. The cost of all of them together was cheaper than a new TV. The fewer additional components, the less chance I'll have problems.
Who wouldn't want that, and what reason could you argue not to have it?
Because the components will become outdated long before the TV portion does and the only way to update will be to replace the entire thing. Or do you actually think it will be based on an open architecture that will allow replacement of components and still remain in warranty? Sorry, not for me.
And the locality gets the money to do this from where? I'm sure it will be really popular at the next town hall when the elected officials try to explain that they need an increase in budget to pay for trenching, laying cable and an increase in staffing to manage the facilities. With streets getting worse and police and fire department personnel getting laid off because there's no money, this should go over really well...
I'm not talking about competing with a locally-managed ISP, but why it happens that cable companies get monopolies in the first place. Not every community has the time, money or expertise to build their own infrastructure. Especially the money.
So let's say that I'm a cable company and I'm interested in bringing in new service to your town (or city). Your constituents have been crying for cable and better Internet access, so you say that you're interested.
"This will be very expensive work.", I say, "We'd need some guarantees of exclusivity." "No", you say, "You can put in the cable, but you'll have to carry other traffic. You'll have to compete on price for the services." "But we're picking up the cost of infrastructure - what's in it for us?" I say. "You'll be first, but no guarantees past that." "Good luck with that.", I say and walk out the door.
Ok, my parents are of European origin and I find it sad that stars had to die to create the elements that make up the machine that the OP used to post with.
TFA was referring to the refusal given to DriveTrain as an example of why Torrent apps have gotten turned down in the past.
As Kepner chose not to publish what Apple sent him, we can only speculate as to the reason why it was pulled. Besides, the bit of the article you clipped did indicate what Apple told the developer when it was refused. You may not agree with the reason, but there was one: no secrets there.
I like that it contributes to the accountability but it frightens me that I believe wikileaks.
Improve accountability? No, all this will do is force the decision-making process further away from the prying eyes of public scrutiny. Arguments and discussions will only take place "off the record" and in ways that can be immediately destroyed. No decisions will be documented - at least not in a way that can be used against anyone. Don't like the amount of paper that a bureaucracy produces? You won't have to worry about that much longer...
Right. And when the content provider partner says that they will not to provide content that is not rights-managed what will Google do? Do you really think that Fair Play exists because Apple thought it was a good idea? Or that the "openness" of a distribution platform has anything to do with anything, so far as Disney/ABC/ESPN is concerned?
It's not necessarily a case of the admins versus the developers, its more of practicing good data governance.
Our developers used to have direct access to all of the production databases. This was bad enough, but because of this the organization permitted them to directly "clean up" databases (meaning they wrote to tables directly), we had data that was being changed without the ability to really know who did it. The DBAs hated it and the developers were extremely uncomfortable doing it but it happened anyway. We eventually had a real process audit and the auditors had a field day.
If you want to give me examples of what the government does right, I'm sure you can find one that doesn't hemorrhage taxpayer money for less service than I can get from a number of private companies..
Right. Show me a private company that will deliver a letter anywhere in the United States for 44 cents.
This presents a false dichotomy - there are more than enough resources available to work on both. Achieving extra-Earth travel and "fixing" the problems that plague us here require different solution sets. Neither is completely insolvable. The only true problem is that humanity as a whole has yet to determine that either is as or more important than their self-centered point of view.
"A single character space, not two spaces, should be left after periods at the end of sentences (both manuscript and in final, published form) and after colons."
Until a buyer who is unaware of jailbreaking sues Apple because their recently-purchased iPhone doesn't do something that the demo model in the store did...
And in the US, tack on a few more acres for storing the waste indefinitely, as the Federal Government is unlikely to get it's act into gear and actually create a storage facility for it anytime soon.
The Department of Energy already did. Nevada didn't want it, so it's dead (gotta love state's rights). The search for options begins again with to a new Blue Ribbon Comission.
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I took my Mustang out there about ten years ago. It was fun but I never really got the salt out of all of the places it found a way into.
Protip: Don't drive there in early morning except in high summer - the salt is wet and sticks like nothing you've ever seen before.
No exaggeration. I haven't bought any books recently, but I was paying between $30 and $50 for Computer Science texts when I went to college in the '70s. My tuition at the time was less than half of what I was paying for textbooks every semester.
And? Vincent Price's name, face and voice obviously was of some benefit - otherwise they would have hired some guy that looked like him and looped in dialog from someone who sounded like him. They wanted Vincent Price, they had to pay for Vincent Price. Or maybe they thought that being Iron Maiden was enough...
Target practice!
And I have had three TVs over the past thirty years. In that time, I have had to fix or replace VCRs, LaserDisc players, TiVos and just about everything else that I've plugged into them because of a failure of one sort or another. The cost of all of them together was cheaper than a new TV. The fewer additional components, the less chance I'll have problems.
Because the components will become outdated long before the TV portion does and the only way to update will be to replace the entire thing. Or do you actually think it will be based on an open architecture that will allow replacement of components and still remain in warranty? Sorry, not for me.
You're right. It didn't seem right when I typed it, but I left it anyway. Should have looked it up rather than rely upon memory...
And the locality gets the money to do this from where? I'm sure it will be really popular at the next town hall when the elected officials try to explain that they need an increase in budget to pay for trenching, laying cable and an increase in staffing to manage the facilities. With streets getting worse and police and fire department personnel getting laid off because there's no money, this should go over really well...
I'm not talking about competing with a locally-managed ISP, but why it happens that cable companies get monopolies in the first place. Not every community has the time, money or expertise to build their own infrastructure. Especially the money.
"This will be very expensive work.", I say, "We'd need some guarantees of exclusivity."
"No", you say, "You can put in the cable, but you'll have to carry other traffic. You'll have to compete on price for the services."
"But we're picking up the cost of infrastructure - what's in it for us?" I say.
"You'll be first, but no guarantees past that."
"Good luck with that.", I say and walk out the door.
Ok, my parents are of European origin and I find it sad that stars had to die to create the elements that make up the machine that the OP used to post with.
As Kepner chose not to publish what Apple sent him, we can only speculate as to the reason why it was pulled. Besides, the bit of the article you clipped did indicate what Apple told the developer when it was refused. You may not agree with the reason, but there was one: no secrets there.
No, Ralph Bakshi used rotoscoping for his version of The Lord of the Rings in 1978. Rankin-Bass's 1977 verson of The Hobbit was plain-old animation...
And if it does? There are more "old people" than teenagers and they have lots more disposable income...
Improve accountability? No, all this will do is force the decision-making process further away from the prying eyes of public scrutiny. Arguments and discussions will only take place "off the record" and in ways that can be immediately destroyed. No decisions will be documented - at least not in a way that can be used against anyone. Don't like the amount of paper that a bureaucracy produces? You won't have to worry about that much longer...
Right. And when the content provider partner says that they will not to provide content that is not rights-managed what will Google do? Do you really think that Fair Play exists because Apple thought it was a good idea? Or that the "openness" of a distribution platform has anything to do with anything, so far as Disney/ABC/ESPN is concerned?
An acronym is an abbreviation, but this is an initialism
It's not necessarily a case of the admins versus the developers, its more of practicing good data governance.
Our developers used to have direct access to all of the production databases. This was bad enough, but because of this the organization permitted them to directly "clean up" databases (meaning they wrote to tables directly), we had data that was being changed without the ability to really know who did it. The DBAs hated it and the developers were extremely uncomfortable doing it but it happened anyway. We eventually had a real process audit and the auditors had a field day.
Needless to say we changed. I hope.
If you want to give me examples of what the government does right, I'm sure you can find one that doesn't hemorrhage taxpayer money for less service than I can get from a number of private companies..
Right. Show me a private company that will deliver a letter anywhere in the United States for 44 cents.
This presents a false dichotomy - there are more than enough resources available to work on both. Achieving extra-Earth travel and "fixing" the problems that plague us here require different solution sets. Neither is completely insolvable.
The only true problem is that humanity as a whole has yet to determine that either is as or more important than their self-centered point of view.
"A single character space, not two spaces, should be left after periods at the end of sentences (both manuscript and in final, published form) and after colons."
How, exactly, is this flamebait?
Until a buyer who is unaware of jailbreaking sues Apple because their recently-purchased iPhone doesn't do something that the demo model in the store did...
No, Oakland's in Alameda County. Where the nuclear wessels are. Or at least used to be.
And in the US, tack on a few more acres for storing the waste indefinitely, as the Federal Government is unlikely to get it's act into gear and actually create a storage facility for it anytime soon.
The Department of Energy already did. Nevada didn't want it, so it's dead (gotta love state's rights). The search for options begins again with to a new Blue Ribbon Comission.