I'd say go for it...
With the following two caveats:
Since the city council is claiming you get no privacy on a public street, then all scans should be uploaded immediately to a public facing, searchable web site and
No scrubbing of data is allowed. That means, city council, that your plate scans are available for everyone to see (including date/time and place).
I'll bet once they discover that anyone can see their car parked outside of Mistress Gretta's Rub N' Tug every day at lunchtime, they may not think it is such a great idea...
But we all know that would never happen 'cuz they are better than us mere mortals...
I think you've completely missed the important facts.
Scientology is still a religion in Germany, but they don't qualify to be state recognized religious organization because they don't do anything to benefit he community. You can be believe Jimmy Buffet is your only ticket to paradise, but he's not gonna get a tax break unless he tells you to give back to the community.
Likewise, you can call whatever you want "a company" but it's not going to be a company--and entitled to the benefits therein--unless it gets a business license.
You can call yourself a cop all you want, but unless you pass the requirements to become a LEO, you're not a cop.
That's the difference.
Meanwhile, the other major religions you listed are all giving back to the community in great numbers. So they do qualify to be a state approved religion. So this is an entirely apples to oranges, reasonable contrast between major religions and Scientology. If Scientology wants to get tax breaks all they have to do (GASP) is start giving a shit about people and trying to help them. If that burden is too high for you to become a religion, I don't think I want you anywhere near a legislative job.
Jimmy Buffett can give you a cheeseburger after you get there, but Eddie Money is the only one with the tickets (only two, though...)
Edit: Ok, now that I've RTFA, i see a reference to a miraculous mini-compressor and revolutionary battery. Hmmm. Sounds like a nice idea, but it's got a long way to go.
What boosts the air pressure to equalize the water pressure? Part of what the tank system does is increase the air pressure to equalize the water pressure otherwise you'd never be able to take a breath.
The FAA nor the FCC has ever proven conclusively that consumer grade GPS, phones, PDAs, tablets, laptop, etc. have ever interfered with flight systems. As a matter of fact, the Air Force recently awarded a contract to procure iPads to replace paper flight manuals for the Air Mobility Command. These iPads will be used in the cockpit, mere inches from these same flight systems, so somehow I doubt that my smartphone that is many feet from the cockpit will interfere with the instruments. And before you go there, I know that much of the wiring going to and from the sensors, instruments, and flight controls run down the fuselage, in some cases, just a few inches from the passenger's seats, but that wiring is shielded and sometimes in its own conduit.
We used to use spreadsheets and the like, then we tried CaliberRM for a year or so, but now it appears that we settled on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server. We have several teams around the world and are finding TFS to be very useful in keeping track of requirements, test cases, strategy documents, etc. We also use Rally for our development tracking. Good luck!
So he was also the Minister Of Wood? Makes sense that he might need to look at pr0n while "on the job"...ijs
(forgive me if this was already thrown out there)
One more thing... I was working full time while I went to UoP. It was hard and there were some times that I though about quitting, but luckily, my family was very supportive and I made it through. BTW, my final GPA was 3.90. So it can be done...
Sorry you had such a bad experience with UoP. I too, went to UoP, but I have a completely different take on the experience. Yes, the pace is fast, but they are compressing a normal semester's worth of material into 5 weeks. Did you honestly think that going to school full time and working full time that you were going to have time for much else?
As to the instructors, more than 50% of mine held PhD(s) in their relevant subject area, hell, one of my math teachers was a double PhD from the former Soviet equivalent of our MIT, and work in their space program. So yes, he was a rocket scientist. All in all, I only had one instructor in my 3 years that I had a major complaint about and evidently, others also had complaints, because he was not there very long.
Anyway, as to the learning teams, because of the variety of scholastic backgrounds that people have, you will have folks that are not up to par and that presents some challenges. You chose to be the final editor out of fear of a bad grade. On my learning teams, each person was delegated that duty in turn and we only had one problem in a critical thinking class. In that case, we talked to the person and got nowhere, so we elevated to the instructor. In the end, we each turned in our section of the paper individually and were graded on our individual contributions. We all received fair grades and the problem child received a failure for his part. Because we were all mostly on the same schedule, many of us had the same classes and ended up being on the same learning teams. We were all mostly successful in our classes because of this.
I have been in the computer industry for many years, and yes there were some classes that I could have taught, but rather than getting an attitude, I aced them and improved my GPA. I don't know what degree program you were in, but in my Computer Science\Information Systems degree, I NEVER had 900 pages of reading EVERY week, that seems like an unusually high load and maybe you should have voiced your concerns to the administrative staff. So, like anything, there will be good experiences and bad experiences and I am sorry that you had such a bad experience, but not all UoP campuses are like yours.
Where to start?
To quote, "Do you think Intel does this for Dell? Why, yes as a matter of fact Intel does do this for Dell, and probably for HP, and probably for anyone else that is a major supplier of systems that use their products. AMD does this as well, so maybe the author should do a little more research before he asks rhetorical (and ultimately stupid) questions. First of all, he states (as fact) that Intel "decides" 90% of what goes into a next generation system. I'd like to see his basis for that 90% figure. For instance, I know for a fact, that Dell expends a lot of time and money deciding what goes into their next generation of systems, not Intel. Companies like Dell have a tremendous influence on what the feature set for the next generation of Intel and AMD processors/chipsets will ship with.
I am now stating my opinion and not trying to make it appear as fact; There were times when PC innovations were coming at the consumer at a dizzying pace, but now the PC has become so ubiquitous that there is not much left that would constitute an earth shattering innovation. The mobile phone market, on the other hand, is still very young and there are numerous opportunities to innovate and differentiate company X from company Y. That could be a reason that phone innovation is outpacing PC innovation.
Yes, a notebook computer was designed to be more mobile than a PC, but it was never intended to be as mobile as a cell phone. So to compare a feature like GPS in a notebook vs. GPS in a cell phone is comparing apples to oranges.
Large PC makers usually have second, third, and even fourth sources for their components. There are many reasons for this, but the two main reasons are; In case a component maker cannot sustain the necessary supply levels needed to manufacture the systems. And if a component supplier's product does not meet specifications, the system maker can (and does) restrict that component from that vendor. Now, that doesn't work so well with CPU vendors, but their product's launch could be delayed if CPU/Chipset vendor X, does not fix the problems in their offerings.
Steve Cheney may have been an engineer in the web and mobile market space, but it does not appear that he really has any idea how PC's and related hardware are developed and how feature sets are driven back and forth between PC makers and the component vendors. /rant
Brilliant! Every person in every company that has the authority to make such decisions should read this post. Maybe they would think twice about instituting such draconian IT policies as they really don’t address the underlying problem of employee productivity. I can waste just as much time playing Ant Buster as I can surfing pron sites. Checking my GMail account is blocked? No problem. I'll just set up auto-forward on my GMail account to go to my company account. I get to see my mail anyway. Nor do they stop anyone from exposing the company to lawsuits that might come about as a result of someone surfing to a site that someone else would find objectionable. I guarantee that there are articles posted on CNN.com (or most any “news” site) that show the latest graphic photos of the latest victims of the latest car bomb somewhere or the latest bikini photos of some starlet wannabe. Just because it is not PMITA pron doesn’t mean that it can’t become grounds for a juicy lawsuit, because someone wants a big fat check. Please do not preach the “we must protect the company because you stupid users will destroy us” line to me. I worked in the IT department and I know just how badly the watchers need watching.
Obviously to sensationalize the article. How else to get people to read it? If they just said, “Biologically Powered Transistor Devised”, then people would be all ho hum about it. But if you invoke images of Terminator or Cylons, then people notice. As a matter of fact, nowhere in the article do any of the researchers say anything about this being human. They all refer to the cells in very generic terms. It could be any cells.
I can certainly see more, not less of this coming soon. With the release of the upcoming 12 AMD processors, having 48 cores on a single system is probably too good to pass up from a licensing standpoint. I am very surprised that no one is licensing by the amount of RAM the app uses. With 1TB of RAM available on a single system, I could see companies licensing that too. Customer: Your app runs like crap on my server. Sales Rep: Oh I see you have 256GB of RAM on that system, but in your sales contract, you only purchased the ability to utilize 1GB of RAM. Would you like to upgrade that license? You will definitely see a performance increase! Customer: WTF??? #$@#@&% Sales Rep: Cha-Ching!!!
I think you meant virtualization, and yes, that is the target audience for these systems. Been working on them for about a year now and they are quite nice...
I echo the sentiments of the majority of the posts that do not want any more central authority than already exists on the internet. But the problem of shrinking IPv4 address pool will be fixed as the IPv6 address pool starts getting utilized more. Dear Uncle Sam here in the U.S. already mandates that all network capable devices sold to the Federal Government be IPv6 capable. So when they are ready to take the plunge, they can do so fairly quickly. Many commercial entities are also doing the same. So with more IPv6 addresses being used, the take rate on IPv4 addresses will level off, then actually reverse and more addresses will be available. With IPv4 encapsulation, many of the IPv4 devices can be allowed to be purged on their natural cycles, eliminating the need for any mass purge of older devices. I think this is a tempest in a teacup and there is probably nothing to see here. Keep movingâ¦
I've been trying for a couple of hours to get into the downloads section of MSDN and I keep getting the, "Sorry, we were unable to service your request" message. So somebody must be downloading it. Or maybe they are limiting access to make it appear that there is a larger demand than really is...
Who knows with them.
I'll admit that I did not RTFA, but on the surface it appears that this is based on the presumption that time spent dealing with spam = energy wasted. I don't understand how they can presume this. As if the systems would be off or in some lower power state if they were not being used for handling the spam messages? How many people put their systems into a lower power mode when not being actually used by the human? I would guess very few. Does my monitor use more energy displaying spam than it does displaying anything else? I don't think so. My PC is running mprime when it is "idle", so in my case, the PC probably uses less energy when I am using the system than when it is "idle". This is sort of like Microsoft proclaiming that a study they sponsored revealed that IE is better/faster/stronger than the other browsers. Of course McAfee is going to portray spam in the most evil light it can. Since the catch phrase of the day is being "green", anything they can do to make their products appear to help you or your company become more "green", is a marketing coup on their part.
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Not a MS basher per say, but I am not sure I want MS messing around with MY registry...
What a hack! Blaming the open source community for Microsoft's unwillingness to make integration easier is like me blaming Ford for not making their new diesel engines run on gasoline too. It is a stupid argument. Microsoft is under no obligation to make their products play well with competing applications. People vote with their wallets and as long as Microsoft has the lion share of the market, things will remain as they are. Linux has come a long way and is a breeze to run in the majority of situations. But I still can't find a decent Broadcom wireless driver. Is that the open source community's fault? I think not. I would love to run my SLED 10 box seamlessly on my corporate domain, but the reality is that because of my own troubles with MS Exchange, I cannot do it. I don't blame anyone, certainly not Novell, Redhat, or my company and I don't post whiney blogs on the web about it either. I put on my big boys clothes, go to work and not worry about it. Someday, someone will make the integration a cinch and then I will happily hang my linux box on the corporate network and go on about my work.
Oh yeah, and he does look funny...
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I'll be glad to sell them my spare Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. I don't use it much anymore.
What a bunch of idiots...
My first thought exactly. Thanks, xxxJonBoyxx, for articulating that.
I'd say go for it... With the following two caveats: Since the city council is claiming you get no privacy on a public street, then all scans should be uploaded immediately to a public facing, searchable web site and No scrubbing of data is allowed. That means, city council, that your plate scans are available for everyone to see (including date/time and place). I'll bet once they discover that anyone can see their car parked outside of Mistress Gretta's Rub N' Tug every day at lunchtime, they may not think it is such a great idea...
But we all know that would never happen 'cuz they are better than us mere mortals...
I don't know why, but I read that as "Hawking's Schroedinger" and immediately a very bad visual jumped into my head.
I think you've completely missed the important facts. Scientology is still a religion in Germany, but they don't qualify to be state recognized religious organization because they don't do anything to benefit he community. You can be believe Jimmy Buffet is your only ticket to paradise, but he's not gonna get a tax break unless he tells you to give back to the community. Likewise, you can call whatever you want "a company" but it's not going to be a company--and entitled to the benefits therein--unless it gets a business license. You can call yourself a cop all you want, but unless you pass the requirements to become a LEO, you're not a cop. That's the difference. Meanwhile, the other major religions you listed are all giving back to the community in great numbers. So they do qualify to be a state approved religion. So this is an entirely apples to oranges, reasonable contrast between major religions and Scientology. If Scientology wants to get tax breaks all they have to do (GASP) is start giving a shit about people and trying to help them. If that burden is too high for you to become a religion, I don't think I want you anywhere near a legislative job.
Jimmy Buffett can give you a cheeseburger after you get there, but Eddie Money is the only one with the tickets (only two, though...)
Edit: Ok, now that I've RTFA, i see a reference to a miraculous mini-compressor and revolutionary battery. Hmmm. Sounds like a nice idea, but it's got a long way to go.
What boosts the air pressure to equalize the water pressure? Part of what the tank system does is increase the air pressure to equalize the water pressure otherwise you'd never be able to take a breath.
The FAA nor the FCC has ever proven conclusively that consumer grade GPS, phones, PDAs, tablets, laptop, etc. have ever interfered with flight systems. As a matter of fact, the Air Force recently awarded a contract to procure iPads to replace paper flight manuals for the Air Mobility Command. These iPads will be used in the cockpit, mere inches from these same flight systems, so somehow I doubt that my smartphone that is many feet from the cockpit will interfere with the instruments. And before you go there, I know that much of the wiring going to and from the sensors, instruments, and flight controls run down the fuselage, in some cases, just a few inches from the passenger's seats, but that wiring is shielded and sometimes in its own conduit.
We used to use spreadsheets and the like, then we tried CaliberRM for a year or so, but now it appears that we settled on Microsoft's Team Foundation Server. We have several teams around the world and are finding TFS to be very useful in keeping track of requirements, test cases, strategy documents, etc. We also use Rally for our development tracking. Good luck!
So he was also the Minister Of Wood? Makes sense that he might need to look at pr0n while "on the job"...ijs (forgive me if this was already thrown out there)
One more thing...
I was working full time while I went to UoP. It was hard and there were some times that I though about quitting, but luckily, my family was very supportive and I made it through. BTW, my final GPA was 3.90. So it can be done...
Sorry you had such a bad experience with UoP. I too, went to UoP, but I have a completely different take on the experience. Yes, the pace is fast, but they are compressing a normal semester's worth of material into 5 weeks. Did you honestly think that going to school full time and working full time that you were going to have time for much else?
As to the instructors, more than 50% of mine held PhD(s) in their relevant subject area, hell, one of my math teachers was a double PhD from the former Soviet equivalent of our MIT, and work in their space program. So yes, he was a rocket scientist. All in all, I only had one instructor in my 3 years that I had a major complaint about and evidently, others also had complaints, because he was not there very long.
Anyway, as to the learning teams, because of the variety of scholastic backgrounds that people have, you will have folks that are not up to par and that presents some challenges. You chose to be the final editor out of fear of a bad grade. On my learning teams, each person was delegated that duty in turn and we only had one problem in a critical thinking class. In that case, we talked to the person and got nowhere, so we elevated to the instructor. In the end, we each turned in our section of the paper individually and were graded on our individual contributions. We all received fair grades and the problem child received a failure for his part. Because we were all mostly on the same schedule, many of us had the same classes and ended up being on the same learning teams. We were all mostly successful in our classes because of this.
I have been in the computer industry for many years, and yes there were some classes that I could have taught, but rather than getting an attitude, I aced them and improved my GPA. I don't know what degree program you were in, but in my Computer Science\Information Systems degree, I NEVER had 900 pages of reading EVERY week, that seems like an unusually high load and maybe you should have voiced your concerns to the administrative staff. So, like anything, there will be good experiences and bad experiences and I am sorry that you had such a bad experience, but not all UoP campuses are like yours.
Where to start? To quote, "Do you think Intel does this for Dell?
/rant
Why, yes as a matter of fact Intel does do this for Dell, and probably for HP, and probably for anyone else that is a major supplier of systems that use their products. AMD does this as well, so maybe the author should do a little more research before he asks rhetorical (and ultimately stupid) questions.
First of all, he states (as fact) that Intel "decides" 90% of what goes into a next generation system. I'd like to see his basis for that 90% figure. For instance, I know for a fact, that Dell expends a lot of time and money deciding what goes into their next generation of systems, not Intel. Companies like Dell have a tremendous influence on what the feature set for the next generation of Intel and AMD processors/chipsets will ship with.
I am now stating my opinion and not trying to make it appear as fact; There were times when PC innovations were coming at the consumer at a dizzying pace, but now the PC has become so ubiquitous that there is not much left that would constitute an earth shattering innovation. The mobile phone market, on the other hand, is still very young and there are numerous opportunities to innovate and differentiate company X from company Y. That could be a reason that phone innovation is outpacing PC innovation.
Yes, a notebook computer was designed to be more mobile than a PC, but it was never intended to be as mobile as a cell phone. So to compare a feature like GPS in a notebook vs. GPS in a cell phone is comparing apples to oranges.
Large PC makers usually have second, third, and even fourth sources for their components. There are many reasons for this, but the two main reasons are; In case a component maker cannot sustain the necessary supply levels needed to manufacture the systems. And if a component supplier's product does not meet specifications, the system maker can (and does) restrict that component from that vendor. Now, that doesn't work so well with CPU vendors, but their product's launch could be delayed if CPU/Chipset vendor X, does not fix the problems in their offerings.
Steve Cheney may have been an engineer in the web and mobile market space, but it does not appear that he really has any idea how PC's and related hardware are developed and how feature sets are driven back and forth between PC makers and the component vendors.
Brilliant! Every person in every company that has the authority to make such decisions should read this post. Maybe they would think twice about instituting such draconian IT policies as they really don’t address the underlying problem of employee productivity. I can waste just as much time playing Ant Buster as I can surfing pron sites. Checking my GMail account is blocked? No problem. I'll just set up auto-forward on my GMail account to go to my company account. I get to see my mail anyway. Nor do they stop anyone from exposing the company to lawsuits that might come about as a result of someone surfing to a site that someone else would find objectionable. I guarantee that there are articles posted on CNN.com (or most any “news” site) that show the latest graphic photos of the latest victims of the latest car bomb somewhere or the latest bikini photos of some starlet wannabe. Just because it is not PMITA pron doesn’t mean that it can’t become grounds for a juicy lawsuit, because someone wants a big fat check. Please do not preach the “we must protect the company because you stupid users will destroy us” line to me. I worked in the IT department and I know just how badly the watchers need watching.
Obviously to sensationalize the article. How else to get people to read it? If they just said, “Biologically Powered Transistor Devised”, then people would be all ho hum about it. But if you invoke images of Terminator or Cylons, then people notice. As a matter of fact, nowhere in the article do any of the researchers say anything about this being human. They all refer to the cells in very generic terms. It could be any cells.
I can certainly see more, not less of this coming soon. With the release of the upcoming 12 AMD processors, having 48 cores on a single system is probably too good to pass up from a licensing standpoint. I am very surprised that no one is licensing by the amount of RAM the app uses. With 1TB of RAM available on a single system, I could see companies licensing that too.
Customer: Your app runs like crap on my server.
Sales Rep: Oh I see you have 256GB of RAM on that system, but in your sales contract, you only purchased the ability to utilize 1GB of RAM. Would you like to upgrade that license? You will definitely see a performance increase!
Customer: WTF??? #$@#@&%
Sales Rep: Cha-Ching!!!
I think you meant virtualization, and yes, that is the target audience for these systems. Been working on them for about a year now and they are quite nice...
I echo the sentiments of the majority of the posts that do not want any more central authority than already exists on the internet. But the problem of shrinking IPv4 address pool will be fixed as the IPv6 address pool starts getting utilized more. Dear Uncle Sam here in the U.S. already mandates that all network capable devices sold to the Federal Government be IPv6 capable. So when they are ready to take the plunge, they can do so fairly quickly. Many commercial entities are also doing the same. So with more IPv6 addresses being used, the take rate on IPv4 addresses will level off, then actually reverse and more addresses will be available. With IPv4 encapsulation, many of the IPv4 devices can be allowed to be purged on their natural cycles, eliminating the need for any mass purge of older devices. I think this is a tempest in a teacup and there is probably nothing to see here. Keep movingâ¦
Fat, depressed, and 35 is no way to go through life, son.
How about bung.bing.net?
I've been trying for a couple of hours to get into the downloads section of MSDN and I keep getting the, "Sorry, we were unable to service your request" message. So somebody must be downloading it. Or maybe they are limiting access to make it appear that there is a larger demand than really is... Who knows with them.
I'll admit that I did not RTFA, but on the surface it appears that this is based on the presumption that time spent dealing with spam = energy wasted. I don't understand how they can presume this. As if the systems would be off or in some lower power state if they were not being used for handling the spam messages? How many people put their systems into a lower power mode when not being actually used by the human? I would guess very few. Does my monitor use more energy displaying spam than it does displaying anything else? I don't think so. My PC is running mprime when it is "idle", so in my case, the PC probably uses less energy when I am using the system than when it is "idle". This is sort of like Microsoft proclaiming that a study they sponsored revealed that IE is better/faster/stronger than the other browsers. Of course McAfee is going to portray spam in the most evil light it can. Since the catch phrase of the day is being "green", anything they can do to make their products appear to help you or your company become more "green", is a marketing coup on their part.
Not a MS basher per say, but I am not sure I want MS messing around with MY registry...
What a hack! Blaming the open source community for Microsoft's unwillingness to make integration easier is like me blaming Ford for not making their new diesel engines run on gasoline too. It is a stupid argument. Microsoft is under no obligation to make their products play well with competing applications. People vote with their wallets and as long as Microsoft has the lion share of the market, things will remain as they are. Linux has come a long way and is a breeze to run in the majority of situations. But I still can't find a decent Broadcom wireless driver. Is that the open source community's fault? I think not. I would love to run my SLED 10 box seamlessly on my corporate domain, but the reality is that because of my own troubles with MS Exchange, I cannot do it. I don't blame anyone, certainly not Novell, Redhat, or my company and I don't post whiney blogs on the web about it either. I put on my big boys clothes, go to work and not worry about it. Someday, someone will make the integration a cinch and then I will happily hang my linux box on the corporate network and go on about my work.
Oh yeah, and he does look funny...
Cool...