This seems quite possible with gene therapy, probably not as a treatment once you've gotten that old, but if say around 50 you started taking it or just a pill that metabolized as telomerase and you'd have plenty to keep going well past 120. Of course the longer you live the higher chance statistically speaking that something else would happen to you such as a car accident.
How are you modded insightful? You didn't even read the article otherwise you'd know the summary was Apple bashing while the article was actually pretty well balanced. The article talked about filetypes which you could edit and PDF is not one of them. The article did not say you couldn't backup PDFs.
Of course this is factually incorrect since Blackberries support compressed data transmission and use the least amount of data when compared with any other type of smart phone. Might have something to do with lower roaming costs where every byte costs way more than it needs to because of the carriers ridiculous rates.
Sorry, what's your point here? Why do people need to be careful with their rhetoric in this instance? Warren Buffet is also in the top 1% and supports higher taxes on the super rich, and yet we still don't see tax cuts. Also worth noting that since your father has retired, cutting his taxes won't do anything to spur further investment or employment so you support the argument at hand.
1% is a much easier number to standardize on. It doesn't mean anything against your father other than the possibility that he may have to pay more in taxes. Depending on how his retirement funding was structured he may have even paid taxes already and thus would have nothing to worry about.
Except that's not what is happening. With the wealth disparity only growing you're going to find that the opulence of some is going to cause widespread issues which will and probably are affecting you in ways you don't yet understand. When 99% of a population is feeling the pain of a slow economy I'm not sure you can fault them for wanting the 1% who've only seen their profits and capital increase during this time feel at least some pain of their own.
I'm also kind of shocked at the memory span during most of the debates I hear about this. All of the arguments about taxation are about repealing the Bush tax cuts and restoring the rates to what they were in the 90s when I think it's pretty easy to say that everyone was doing well. The income disparity during that decade was far less than it is today and I might add, they rich were still quite rich.
That's kind of funny to me because Ben and Jerry's was started on the idea the corporations have a moral duty to improve the communities to which they belong. Corporate responsibility is currently non-existent because of your viewpoint. When you look at the laws as a goal instead of a minimum standard then there is no reason for any company to behave in a way that is good for the community.
I work for a company in Arizona these days and they have a similar philosophy, their approach is through philanthropy in much the same way as Ben and Jerry's used to be. We raise tons of money for charity every year.
So in short we should reward companies that behave responsibly and work to make those that merely try to skate along the law irrelevant.
Also worth noting that people have been protesting these policies in Washington for a long time and haven't gotten anywhere. Obama even campaigned on this premise in 2008. Republican obstructionists and disorganized Democrats have so far been ineffective and protects have failed to gain the issue any momentum beyond Rachel Maddow in the media. Occupy Wallstreet in a very short amount of time has shed far more light on the issue as it is taking the issue to the streets instead of insulated Washington.
I find it amusing hearing certain politicians call it class warfare when they've been conducting it handily for the last 30 years, did they not think there was another side?
"No child allowed to succeed?" Now there is some tripe, I don't know of any public schools that would behave as you describe for someone as gifted as this. Hell, I'll admit it's been almost two decades since I've been in anything close to this kid's situation but I had no trouble taking a college course instead of high school classes and rest assured that I didn't have to do all the usual busywork unless I was actually in the class. Even in middle school I'd go to UVM and help a lab technician perform her tests on heart tissue. These policies are still alive and well today. If a school is under-performing you can almost universally look to the parents, the same is true when students are excelling. It was my parents that arranged trips to the local university and even paid for a few courses.
Additionally I've found that while private schools often provide a decent education, they do not handle edge cases such as this very well at all.
I say give the kid the tools he needs to learn and give him access to the real people that can teach him.
Really? Where have you been, under a rock? Then there is the weird hatred for Flash which has caused thousands of sites to have to build IOS specific versions, then those of us in the streaming video world also had to build specific streaming solutions just for IOS devices when Android, Windows, and Linux devices can all use the same streams.
Trying to say developers make more money in one walled garden versus another doesn't really counter the argument presented that walled-gardens are bad ideas anyway. Then there is the reality that only a few developers make a lot of money from the app store and that's provided they don't violate secret app approval rules that have shown to be rather arbitrary.
I'll also note that both I and the GP I was referring to were talking about the market as a whole and not Apple or the developers that actually make money selling their apps.
Additionally, Google's App market only pulls apps which either violate copyright or are malicious, you will be hard pressed to use that as an argument that Google is equally as anticompetitive as Apple as it's simply not true. The only thing that has protected Apple so far is that there is plenty of healthy competition otherwise they would have been found guilty of abusing their monopoly in all of the same ways as Microsoft of the 90's.
Lastly, you'll please note that no one said Apple's approach was bad for everybody, if it was it wouldn't make any money.
You seem to be confused about what the parent was talking about. The parent in no way suggested that you be denied the freedom to choose Apple. He suggested that Apple's walled garden with consistently anticompetitive practices was bad for the overall market and becomes increasingly bad as it's popularity grows.
In what way has Unity reduced the utility of desktop machines? As a Unity user with multiple monitors I'm quite interested in the reply especially since this is a laptop with a docking station. I'm surprised how well it works, in the old days to put the laptop on the docking station I'd have to logout and back in or restart X, now everything just works and auto-detects nicely.
I'll admit that laughing multiple instances of the same app from Unity wasn't all that intuitive at first I now understand why and it works fairly well. I'm also impressed with the integration of other workspaces.
Also, I have a theme, I've branded my desktop environment to match corporate branding, wasn't very difficult either. So what you say is so confusing to me.
0 jobs? Really? You should perhaps realize that echoing Perry is not the best of ideas as it is factually incorrect information. Also worth noting that most of the stimulus came in the form of extending Bush tax cuts which we couldn't afford to begin with.
The government isn't the perfect place to throw money when it comes to these problems but when large corporations are holding on to billions of dollars in reserve rather than reinvesting, hiring more workers, or heaven forbid giving people raises then that leaves you needing to look elsewhere for support.
As someone who manages both Oracle and MS SQL servers I often question whether that is the case. While it is true in the 7 years that I've been managing Oracle I've had exceedingly few issues making the admin process boring and thus effective, MS SQL doesn't require a whole lot of work either. Once you setup your maintenance and backup plans it's pretty much a set and forget setup as well.
Of course I've also found the MS SQL server features are much more readily accessible and easy to deploy without having to modify scripts. The equivalent of Oracle Dataguard on the Microsoft side for instance takes far less time to deploy while they both have their occasional hiccups. When it comes to the core DB Oracle wins hands down, for everything beyond that they suck pretty hard. While Microsoft is pretty good all around.
Doesn't sound like you're familiar with Xirrus which was one of the manufacturers in the list. Their product is an array of access points, up to 64 APs in a UFO shaped container with controllers and everything built in, just give it a network connection consistent with the performance level you're expecting and go, it even has built in radius.
I only priced out their 16 AP option but it comes out to about a grand an AP so it's quite affordable for enterprise offerings that need lots of connections in a small space. If you are out meshing there are better choices but they win when it comes to high density.
What retraining costs? I recently upgraded a whole slew of users from XP to Windows 7, those that noticed any difference were happier for the changes and were used to them inside of a day. The bigger retraining came with Office, not the OS and OpenOffice or LibreOffice are quite different from modern MS Office. They work in a pinch for a lot of people but not everybody.
Of course if you're talking about admin training that's different and I haven't met too many admins lately that are Windows only, most deploy both opting to go with what works best in a given situation.
That's pretty simple, the majority of computer users don't benefit from the traditional environment. For typical sales guys which live in Outlook they'll actually be more effective as the things they use readily will be easily accessible.
Usability is what Microsoft is after, they will make the easiest interface the default as they always have. More advanced features which we'll use on the regular will still be accessible and not really all that different from Windows 7, so what's with the complaining?
I've found with their smart arrays you just have to be careful which ones you buy. Of course after being burned a few times I just left HP alltogether, I haven't bought an HP in two years because even the Proliant networking crap started requiring extra licensing. Unfortunately the 3com crap is screwing with their stellar switch business. It sucks, I ordered an HP switch and received a 3com with a different OS and set of capabilities that don't even work with my existing HP tech.
I'd HP is trying to commit corporate suicide, not sure why since their switch business was incredible profitable. On the server side Supermicro is eating their lunch as basic things like the ability to add a third party video card give me the ability to make cheap HD video capture servers and IPTV boxes while HP at the same time made it a option that of course costs more.
It's good to see that I wasn't alone in seeing all this with HP. I still think I'm crazy but at least I'm not alone.
You should be careful using a term like idiotic, especially when you don't know what bloatware is being referred to. In the case of HP it's things like iLO2 which vary greatly from model to model while Supermicro and Tyan both use IPMI giving me a standardized remote KVM solution that actually works in multiple browsers. HP System Management tools are a complete joke as well, no big deal as I use Nagios to monitor my servers and SCCM for patch management.
Another benefit of going whitebox for was my ability to get servers sooner. To get 12 core Opteron servers I'd have to wait two weeks for HP while I can have it the next day with Supermicro. There's also the reality that I don't know what I'm getting when I buy an HP, sure it says it supports RAID 5 or 6 but that's Windows only and is software RAID prone to problems. On the Supermicro I know what included and just buy a 3ware or Adaptec controller when I need RAID functionality beyond a simple mirror.
The answer to all of that is yes, IPMI is found in most whitebox server manufacturers and is actually standardized to the point where a Tyan motherboard and a Supermicro can be managed in the same ways. Compare that to the fact that iLO2 is different on the 100 series versus the 300 series Proliants and you develop a lot of frustration fast. It's nice to see I'm not the only shop that's been going whitebox lately.
You cannot count on people acting in their own interests. In this day and age I'm astonished that it would even be suggested given that most of the country is still reeling from the real estate debacle. People bought houses they couldn't afford and banks loaned them the money with both parties thinking the house would be worth more if the home owner defaulted.
It's also disingenuous to compare the politics leading to Chernobyl with the politics of Fukishima, the governments are very different especially given the time frame of Chernobyl.
Most people do not see the consequences for their actions because usually someone else ends up baring the cost so they continue until there is no one else left and then bust.
The market is only as good as the regulations force it to be. You might notice that when ATT was broken up there was a huge increase in productivity in the pieces bringing phone lines to increasingly rural parts of the country. Bad regulation is obviously bad for everybody but bad regulation is usually lack of regulation due to non-enforcement. People always complain about building and fire codes calling them stupid until there's an incident and people come out alive. There is usually a reason some regulation was put in place.
Cause gas and ship building and maintenance are free? Reality check, there's a reason Honda, Toyota, Nissan, and Hyundai have all opened plants here in the U.S. Shipping is expensive and as fuel prices rise will only get more expensive.
You're making assumptions predicated on all or nothing and tariffs rarely if ever work that way. You wouldn't all of a sudden impose a tariff on all parts. You would probably encourage assembly here first or visa versa depending on what part of the economy you want to stimulate first.
Imposing a tariff on software produced outside the U.S. would do a lot to encourage local development for instance. I don't see this having a huge impact on the final costs of a product.
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This seems quite possible with gene therapy, probably not as a treatment once you've gotten that old, but if say around 50 you started taking it or just a pill that metabolized as telomerase and you'd have plenty to keep going well past 120. Of course the longer you live the higher chance statistically speaking that something else would happen to you such as a car accident.
ummm.... they are marching on Washington
I guess you missed the part where the article was comparing iCloud to Office 365 and Google Docs both of which allow you to "edit in the cloud"
How are you modded insightful? You didn't even read the article otherwise you'd know the summary was Apple bashing while the article was actually pretty well balanced. The article talked about filetypes which you could edit and PDF is not one of them. The article did not say you couldn't backup PDFs.
No, I'm guessing you didn't read the article. They specifically said it couldn't EDIT PDFs which is true.
Of course this is factually incorrect since Blackberries support compressed data transmission and use the least amount of data when compared with any other type of smart phone. Might have something to do with lower roaming costs where every byte costs way more than it needs to because of the carriers ridiculous rates.
Sorry, what's your point here? Why do people need to be careful with their rhetoric in this instance? Warren Buffet is also in the top 1% and supports higher taxes on the super rich, and yet we still don't see tax cuts. Also worth noting that since your father has retired, cutting his taxes won't do anything to spur further investment or employment so you support the argument at hand.
1% is a much easier number to standardize on. It doesn't mean anything against your father other than the possibility that he may have to pay more in taxes. Depending on how his retirement funding was structured he may have even paid taxes already and thus would have nothing to worry about.
Except that's not what is happening. With the wealth disparity only growing you're going to find that the opulence of some is going to cause widespread issues which will and probably are affecting you in ways you don't yet understand. When 99% of a population is feeling the pain of a slow economy I'm not sure you can fault them for wanting the 1% who've only seen their profits and capital increase during this time feel at least some pain of their own.
I'm also kind of shocked at the memory span during most of the debates I hear about this. All of the arguments about taxation are about repealing the Bush tax cuts and restoring the rates to what they were in the 90s when I think it's pretty easy to say that everyone was doing well. The income disparity during that decade was far less than it is today and I might add, they rich were still quite rich.
That's kind of funny to me because Ben and Jerry's was started on the idea the corporations have a moral duty to improve the communities to which they belong. Corporate responsibility is currently non-existent because of your viewpoint. When you look at the laws as a goal instead of a minimum standard then there is no reason for any company to behave in a way that is good for the community.
I work for a company in Arizona these days and they have a similar philosophy, their approach is through philanthropy in much the same way as Ben and Jerry's used to be. We raise tons of money for charity every year.
So in short we should reward companies that behave responsibly and work to make those that merely try to skate along the law irrelevant.
Also worth noting that people have been protesting these policies in Washington for a long time and haven't gotten anywhere. Obama even campaigned on this premise in 2008. Republican obstructionists and disorganized Democrats have so far been ineffective and protects have failed to gain the issue any momentum beyond Rachel Maddow in the media. Occupy Wallstreet in a very short amount of time has shed far more light on the issue as it is taking the issue to the streets instead of insulated Washington.
I find it amusing hearing certain politicians call it class warfare when they've been conducting it handily for the last 30 years, did they not think there was another side?
"No child allowed to succeed?" Now there is some tripe, I don't know of any public schools that would behave as you describe for someone as gifted as this. Hell, I'll admit it's been almost two decades since I've been in anything close to this kid's situation but I had no trouble taking a college course instead of high school classes and rest assured that I didn't have to do all the usual busywork unless I was actually in the class. Even in middle school I'd go to UVM and help a lab technician perform her tests on heart tissue. These policies are still alive and well today. If a school is under-performing you can almost universally look to the parents, the same is true when students are excelling. It was my parents that arranged trips to the local university and even paid for a few courses.
Additionally I've found that while private schools often provide a decent education, they do not handle edge cases such as this very well at all.
I say give the kid the tools he needs to learn and give him access to the real people that can teach him.
Really? Where have you been, under a rock? Then there is the weird hatred for Flash which has caused thousands of sites to have to build IOS specific versions, then those of us in the streaming video world also had to build specific streaming solutions just for IOS devices when Android, Windows, and Linux devices can all use the same streams.
Trying to say developers make more money in one walled garden versus another doesn't really counter the argument presented that walled-gardens are bad ideas anyway. Then there is the reality that only a few developers make a lot of money from the app store and that's provided they don't violate secret app approval rules that have shown to be rather arbitrary.
I'll also note that both I and the GP I was referring to were talking about the market as a whole and not Apple or the developers that actually make money selling their apps.
Additionally, Google's App market only pulls apps which either violate copyright or are malicious, you will be hard pressed to use that as an argument that Google is equally as anticompetitive as Apple as it's simply not true. The only thing that has protected Apple so far is that there is plenty of healthy competition otherwise they would have been found guilty of abusing their monopoly in all of the same ways as Microsoft of the 90's.
Lastly, you'll please note that no one said Apple's approach was bad for everybody, if it was it wouldn't make any money.
You seem to be confused about what the parent was talking about. The parent in no way suggested that you be denied the freedom to choose Apple. He suggested that Apple's walled garden with consistently anticompetitive practices was bad for the overall market and becomes increasingly bad as it's popularity grows.
That would be the source of the confusion ;)
In what way has Unity reduced the utility of desktop machines? As a Unity user with multiple monitors I'm quite interested in the reply especially since this is a laptop with a docking station. I'm surprised how well it works, in the old days to put the laptop on the docking station I'd have to logout and back in or restart X, now everything just works and auto-detects nicely.
I'll admit that laughing multiple instances of the same app from Unity wasn't all that intuitive at first I now understand why and it works fairly well. I'm also impressed with the integration of other workspaces.
Also, I have a theme, I've branded my desktop environment to match corporate branding, wasn't very difficult either. So what you say is so confusing to me.
0 jobs? Really? You should perhaps realize that echoing Perry is not the best of ideas as it is factually incorrect information. Also worth noting that most of the stimulus came in the form of extending Bush tax cuts which we couldn't afford to begin with.
The government isn't the perfect place to throw money when it comes to these problems but when large corporations are holding on to billions of dollars in reserve rather than reinvesting, hiring more workers, or heaven forbid giving people raises then that leaves you needing to look elsewhere for support.
As someone who manages both Oracle and MS SQL servers I often question whether that is the case. While it is true in the 7 years that I've been managing Oracle I've had exceedingly few issues making the admin process boring and thus effective, MS SQL doesn't require a whole lot of work either. Once you setup your maintenance and backup plans it's pretty much a set and forget setup as well.
Of course I've also found the MS SQL server features are much more readily accessible and easy to deploy without having to modify scripts. The equivalent of Oracle Dataguard on the Microsoft side for instance takes far less time to deploy while they both have their occasional hiccups. When it comes to the core DB Oracle wins hands down, for everything beyond that they suck pretty hard. While Microsoft is pretty good all around.
Doesn't sound like you're familiar with Xirrus which was one of the manufacturers in the list. Their product is an array of access points, up to 64 APs in a UFO shaped container with controllers and everything built in, just give it a network connection consistent with the performance level you're expecting and go, it even has built in radius.
I only priced out their 16 AP option but it comes out to about a grand an AP so it's quite affordable for enterprise offerings that need lots of connections in a small space. If you are out meshing there are better choices but they win when it comes to high density.
What retraining costs? I recently upgraded a whole slew of users from XP to Windows 7, those that noticed any difference were happier for the changes and were used to them inside of a day. The bigger retraining came with Office, not the OS and OpenOffice or LibreOffice are quite different from modern MS Office. They work in a pinch for a lot of people but not everybody.
Of course if you're talking about admin training that's different and I haven't met too many admins lately that are Windows only, most deploy both opting to go with what works best in a given situation.
That's pretty simple, the majority of computer users don't benefit from the traditional environment. For typical sales guys which live in Outlook they'll actually be more effective as the things they use readily will be easily accessible.
Usability is what Microsoft is after, they will make the easiest interface the default as they always have. More advanced features which we'll use on the regular will still be accessible and not really all that different from Windows 7, so what's with the complaining?
I've found with their smart arrays you just have to be careful which ones you buy. Of course after being burned a few times I just left HP alltogether, I haven't bought an HP in two years because even the Proliant networking crap started requiring extra licensing. Unfortunately the 3com crap is screwing with their stellar switch business. It sucks, I ordered an HP switch and received a 3com with a different OS and set of capabilities that don't even work with my existing HP tech.
I'd HP is trying to commit corporate suicide, not sure why since their switch business was incredible profitable. On the server side Supermicro is eating their lunch as basic things like the ability to add a third party video card give me the ability to make cheap HD video capture servers and IPTV boxes while HP at the same time made it a option that of course costs more.
It's good to see that I wasn't alone in seeing all this with HP. I still think I'm crazy but at least I'm not alone.
You should be careful using a term like idiotic, especially when you don't know what bloatware is being referred to. In the case of HP it's things like iLO2 which vary greatly from model to model while Supermicro and Tyan both use IPMI giving me a standardized remote KVM solution that actually works in multiple browsers. HP System Management tools are a complete joke as well, no big deal as I use Nagios to monitor my servers and SCCM for patch management.
Another benefit of going whitebox for was my ability to get servers sooner. To get 12 core Opteron servers I'd have to wait two weeks for HP while I can have it the next day with Supermicro. There's also the reality that I don't know what I'm getting when I buy an HP, sure it says it supports RAID 5 or 6 but that's Windows only and is software RAID prone to problems. On the Supermicro I know what included and just buy a 3ware or Adaptec controller when I need RAID functionality beyond a simple mirror.
The answer to all of that is yes, IPMI is found in most whitebox server manufacturers and is actually standardized to the point where a Tyan motherboard and a Supermicro can be managed in the same ways. Compare that to the fact that iLO2 is different on the 100 series versus the 300 series Proliants and you develop a lot of frustration fast. It's nice to see I'm not the only shop that's been going whitebox lately.
You cannot count on people acting in their own interests. In this day and age I'm astonished that it would even be suggested given that most of the country is still reeling from the real estate debacle. People bought houses they couldn't afford and banks loaned them the money with both parties thinking the house would be worth more if the home owner defaulted.
It's also disingenuous to compare the politics leading to Chernobyl with the politics of Fukishima, the governments are very different especially given the time frame of Chernobyl.
Most people do not see the consequences for their actions because usually someone else ends up baring the cost so they continue until there is no one else left and then bust.
The market is only as good as the regulations force it to be. You might notice that when ATT was broken up there was a huge increase in productivity in the pieces bringing phone lines to increasingly rural parts of the country. Bad regulation is obviously bad for everybody but bad regulation is usually lack of regulation due to non-enforcement. People always complain about building and fire codes calling them stupid until there's an incident and people come out alive. There is usually a reason some regulation was put in place.
Cause gas and ship building and maintenance are free? Reality check, there's a reason Honda, Toyota, Nissan, and Hyundai have all opened plants here in the U.S. Shipping is expensive and as fuel prices rise will only get more expensive.
You're making assumptions predicated on all or nothing and tariffs rarely if ever work that way. You wouldn't all of a sudden impose a tariff on all parts. You would probably encourage assembly here first or visa versa depending on what part of the economy you want to stimulate first.
Imposing a tariff on software produced outside the U.S. would do a lot to encourage local development for instance. I don't see this having a huge impact on the final costs of a product.