On the one hand they're claiming XP is obsolete. On the other, they're still pushing it even on yet unreleased devices. My only assumption can be that this Eee keyboard is obsolete and that I should hold out for a linux based one.
Absolutely. If I'm interviewing someone for a programming job and when I ask what qualifies them for the position, I don't want to hear "Well, I took programming classes at school." I mean, yes, that's good and all, but someone who can say that and can also say they contributed to some-major-OSS-project in their spare time is going to look better. If the only thing you can say is you took classes in it, I'll assume you're yet another fool who got sold on the TV commercials claiming millions of high paying programming jobs are waiting for you and has no interest in actually programming.
The taxpayers also benefit from the money the government uses on vaccines. The more that are vaccinated the slower the spread of disease and the more controlled it is. So even those who are not vaccinated benefit. How the vaccines have anything to do with the insurance premiums for your construction company is beyond me.
Other than that: if you cannot find any evidence of firmware upgrades to potentially fix an unreliable machine - throw out the power supply, the motherboard and the CPU, without hesitation (or get them replaced under warranty).
If you've only ruled it down to one of those 3, how will you get the companies to replace those parts under warranty?
What if he is the manufacturer? If he's building the machines for friends & family he can't simply call someone else up to replace everything. Or perhaps someone else built the machine from components. The fix is the same, replace whatever is broken, but the question is how do you determine which thing is broken. (This is a good reason not to build machines for friends and family.)
You'd still be making an invalid comparison. The normal linux distribution includes multiple tools to do the same tasks. For example, most come packaged with both Gnome and KDE. It's pretty impossible to compare security by number of patches.
Which brings up an interesting question - how will this affect Google Voice? Since it's not VOIP and this is about VOIP, google voice could remain blocked from the app store for the "duplication of functionality" or whatever argument Apple is using.
I use skype at home because of voice quality. I can't get through a 3 minute cell phone call without asking the other person to repeat less than 10 times, much less a 30 minute phone call. Most people don't even realize they're talking over VOIP when I use skype. My guess would be skype over 3g will be just as bad as regular cell conversations. Though, it will be interesting to see - perhaps VOIP providers will use different failure methods when packets don't get through in such a way audio is delayed before it's dropped so that you hear more of the conversation.
The fact that this essay is of an accepted student shows that they dropped the essay requirement a long time ago. At least in practice. They may as well make it official.
Perhaps a better comparison would have been netflix. For $4.99 per month you get two DVD rentals per month, or two DVD's shipped BOTH WAYS for a total of 4 DVD trips. That's about $1.25 per trip. Certainly a software giant like Microsoft can negotiate better DVD pressing costs than $16 a disc...
Newegg even lets you display only the bad reviews. I've also seen reviews suggesting you purchase products elsewhere when shipping might be an issue. It doesn't seem like Newegg does much screening at all. Probably has any prices listed with dollar signs stripped and any URL's or competitors stripped automatically and then goes with that.
One thing to keep in mind when reading reviews at any site though is that the ratio of positive to negative reviews differs wildly. Websites that make the review process difficult are likely only going to get reviews from people very strongly opinionated and probably have a higher negative ratio. Websites that make the review process very easy will have more reviews.
I can see several reasons that those who obtain flu vaccines are more likely to contract the swine flu (as well as all the other versions of the flu.) First there's the age issue. The elderly are more likely to obtain a flu vaccine and are a higher risk group to begin with. But you also have the problems of people choosing to obtain the vaccine or not. Those who have never had a problem with the flu aren't likely to vaccinate themselves while those who have are more likely to obtain the vaccination. So in general you would expect those who obtain the vaccine to have more problems with the flu than those who don't.
That said, it's entirely possible the study accounted for all that, but we have no way to know as the study hasn't been published yet . It's only been distributed for peer review at this point.Until the actual methods are available, I consider this just another example of media sensationalism regarding the swine flu.
The real question is why bother with emulating an iPod at all, surely there's a better way for Palm to do this. There must be some quite compelling reason to go with this protocol over some other solution.
From the user's perspective, someone who has been using an ipod/iphone/etc and syncing with iTunes is going to be used to that method and that interface. If they have multiple media players, it could get confusing having to sync the different players in different methods. So from a use perspective it is best for the user to be able to sync from iTunes. This also allows the media player to sync back while the other method cannot.
p>OK, there is a point in that while both the poor and rich person are saving (roughly) equally less as a % of their income, the rich person may now be investing relatively more (a poor person who previously saved 3% of his income now saves nothing, while a rich person saving 10% now saves 6%: 3:10 vs 0:6). The rich person thus is able to make a return on that 6% while the poor person gets no return.
You answered your own question right there. Marginal propensity to spend/marginal propensity to save & compounding interest.
Seems to be right. Kind of like how WOW uses p2p for the distribution of their game updates. By pushing the hosting of software from their own servers onto the customers computer MS would be able to reduce it's bandwidth requirements and hence costs. In an ideal world this would result in cheaper software.
Warren doesn't fund companies from an altruistic job creation goal. He funds companies to get a return on his investment. The actual creation of jobs is far more demand driven than supply driven anyway. He increases his income by investing his money.
Regressive taxes such as sales tax will hit much harder on the poor. When you have to spend 90% of your income on housing & food you'll pay taxes on at least 90% of you're income with a sales tax.
So what you're doing is allowing those who make/have lots of money to make a lot more money, and making it very difficult for those without a lot of money/income to increase their position. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the divide increases.
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On the one hand they're claiming XP is obsolete. On the other, they're still pushing it even on yet unreleased devices. My only assumption can be that this Eee keyboard is obsolete and that I should hold out for a linux based one.
The government better keep it's hands OUT OF MY MEDICARE!
Absolutely. If I'm interviewing someone for a programming job and when I ask what qualifies them for the position, I don't want to hear "Well, I took programming classes at school." I mean, yes, that's good and all, but someone who can say that and can also say they contributed to some-major-OSS-project in their spare time is going to look better. If the only thing you can say is you took classes in it, I'll assume you're yet another fool who got sold on the TV commercials claiming millions of high paying programming jobs are waiting for you and has no interest in actually programming.
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According to them (and the majority of courts which have bought into it) an IP address is unquestionable proof of identity.
I'm glad you clarified that it's the courts that bought into it that bought into it... It's fitting that this was posted under "captain obvious."
The taxpayers also benefit from the money the government uses on vaccines. The more that are vaccinated the slower the spread of disease and the more controlled it is. So even those who are not vaccinated benefit. How the vaccines have anything to do with the insurance premiums for your construction company is beyond me.
You may like to know what's broken , but that's pointless as you need to change both the cpu and the motherboard , and i explain myself.
Only pointless if you don't plan to get a replacement under warranty.
Other than that: if you cannot find any evidence of firmware upgrades to potentially fix an unreliable machine - throw out the power supply, the motherboard and the CPU, without hesitation (or get them replaced under warranty).
If you've only ruled it down to one of those 3, how will you get the companies to replace those parts under warranty?
What if he is the manufacturer? If he's building the machines for friends & family he can't simply call someone else up to replace everything. Or perhaps someone else built the machine from components. The fix is the same, replace whatever is broken, but the question is how do you determine which thing is broken. (This is a good reason not to build machines for friends and family.)
all software included in the iso,
You'd still be making an invalid comparison. The normal linux distribution includes multiple tools to do the same tasks. For example, most come packaged with both Gnome and KDE. It's pretty impossible to compare security by number of patches.
Which brings up an interesting question - how will this affect Google Voice? Since it's not VOIP and this is about VOIP, google voice could remain blocked from the app store for the "duplication of functionality" or whatever argument Apple is using.
I use skype at home because of voice quality. I can't get through a 3 minute cell phone call without asking the other person to repeat less than 10 times, much less a 30 minute phone call. Most people don't even realize they're talking over VOIP when I use skype. My guess would be skype over 3g will be just as bad as regular cell conversations. Though, it will be interesting to see - perhaps VOIP providers will use different failure methods when packets don't get through in such a way audio is delayed before it's dropped so that you hear more of the conversation.
Google doesn't have a VOIP service.
The example essay given in argument of keeping the essay as part of the application supports your argument.
The fact that this essay is of an accepted student shows that they dropped the essay requirement a long time ago. At least in practice. They may as well make it official.
Perhaps a better comparison would have been netflix. For $4.99 per month you get two DVD rentals per month, or two DVD's shipped BOTH WAYS for a total of 4 DVD trips. That's about $1.25 per trip. Certainly a software giant like Microsoft can negotiate better DVD pressing costs than $16 a disc...
They can print as much paper money as they want but that's not the same thing as unlimited resources.
Movies are also a commonly pirated item, and not all that portable. I don't think books will be, but not due to portability issues.
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Newegg even lets you display only the bad reviews. I've also seen reviews suggesting you purchase products elsewhere when shipping might be an issue. It doesn't seem like Newegg does much screening at all. Probably has any prices listed with dollar signs stripped and any URL's or competitors stripped automatically and then goes with that.
One thing to keep in mind when reading reviews at any site though is that the ratio of positive to negative reviews differs wildly. Websites that make the review process difficult are likely only going to get reviews from people very strongly opinionated and probably have a higher negative ratio. Websites that make the review process very easy will have more reviews.
I can see several reasons that those who obtain flu vaccines are more likely to contract the swine flu (as well as all the other versions of the flu.) First there's the age issue. The elderly are more likely to obtain a flu vaccine and are a higher risk group to begin with. But you also have the problems of people choosing to obtain the vaccine or not. Those who have never had a problem with the flu aren't likely to vaccinate themselves while those who have are more likely to obtain the vaccination. So in general you would expect those who obtain the vaccine to have more problems with the flu than those who don't.
That said, it's entirely possible the study accounted for all that, but we have no way to know as the study hasn't been published yet . It's only been distributed for peer review at this point.Until the actual methods are available, I consider this just another example of media sensationalism regarding the swine flu.
The real question is why bother with emulating an iPod at all, surely there's a better way for Palm to do this. There must be some quite compelling reason to go with this protocol over some other solution.
From the user's perspective, someone who has been using an ipod/iphone/etc and syncing with iTunes is going to be used to that method and that interface. If they have multiple media players, it could get confusing having to sync the different players in different methods. So from a use perspective it is best for the user to be able to sync from iTunes. This also allows the media player to sync back while the other method cannot.
You answered your own question right there. Marginal propensity to spend/marginal propensity to save & compounding interest.
Seems to be right. Kind of like how WOW uses p2p for the distribution of their game updates. By pushing the hosting of software from their own servers onto the customers computer MS would be able to reduce it's bandwidth requirements and hence costs. In an ideal world this would result in cheaper software.
Seriously, an article on some obscure car should include at least one image so we know what the heck it's talking about.
http://www.washedashore.com/projects/dymax/pictures.html
Warren doesn't fund companies from an altruistic job creation goal. He funds companies to get a return on his investment. The actual creation of jobs is far more demand driven than supply driven anyway. He increases his income by investing his money.
Regressive taxes such as sales tax will hit much harder on the poor. When you have to spend 90% of your income on housing & food you'll pay taxes on at least 90% of you're income with a sales tax.
So what you're doing is allowing those who make/have lots of money to make a lot more money, and making it very difficult for those without a lot of money/income to increase their position. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the divide increases.