I think we'd collectively be more concerned with, you know, people dropping like flies in huge numbers than we would about telecommuting or browsing YouTube, or at least I like to think that we would. Seriously, the health and safety of my loved ones and society as a whole would be paramount in my mind, and everything else would be a distant second.
And what are you personally going to do about people dying in huge numbers? Run down the street and madly try CPR on them? What would significantly reduce the death toll would be having people relatively quarantined, and maintaining the supply chain of essential goods.
How could these two goals be achieved concurrently? By having as many workers as possible working from their own home. Which means telecommuting. Now, if the entire population is keeping inside their homes, they will seek something to occupy themselves. Part of this will be checking on their families, friends etc.. Which will likely be done either over the phone or internet. Part of this will be entertainment to assuage the boredom. Part of this will come from the internet. When people are on the internet looking for entertainment, where do they go? Often, to YouTube. Hence massively increased traffic to sites like YouTube, although I think these sites will crash long before the internet as a whole does.
If there were a pandemic, I doubt that people would necessarily be surfing YouTube.
Of course they would. Think about it - people would be reluctant to leave their homes at all, except when absolutely necessary. So they will seek entertainment to fill in the hours they would otherwise have spent commuting and going out. The internet, especially sites like YouTube, would likely provide a good portion of that.
That standard is out of date. IPoAC now has QoS, which would help in prioritizing traffic. Remember, the problem is with bird flu in humans. It's already in birds, so it wouldn't be such a catastrophy and we can implement IPoAC now, to provide peak capacity.
The vast majority of Vista sales will be OEM versions, sold with new computers to people who don't know what a graphics card is, let alone DirectX, Nvidia or ATI. Vista will sell a lot of copies, gamers will stick with XP and Nvidia and ATI will be locked out of having their graphics cards in new computers. Intel would probably improve their graphics chipsets (introduce a deluxe model or something), or some other company would come along.
I think the main problem with this is copyright laws. Once an ISP actually starts caching data, rather than just passing it through, they either become liable for it or at least have to respond to takedown requests, which would make the system far too complicated to be workable.
spam: 2. An unsolicited electronic message sent in bulk, e.g. by email or newsgroups
These emails are solicited, and are therefore not spam. This is of course the difficult line that spam filters must tread - I would probably consider emails very similar to these, but that I had not signed up to, spam, but these are not spam. Which is why there will probably never be a complete automated solution to spam.
Also, the email about new products does have useful information. To me, being informed of new products is useful, which is why I signed up for the email list.
There is no such thing as "legitimate marketing". All commercial e-mail is Spam
This is patently false - I am on a couple of lists of small local companies. I signed up for these by writing my address on a physical piece of paper in the shops. One sends a newsletter every month with new products etc, another sends a newsletter every couple of months with useful articles, as well as an occasional email about a sale.
I signed up for these emails, I like getting these emails, and I could easily unsubscribe to these emails. However, I know that at least one of these lists has had trouble with getting spam-filtered.
I work for the largest retailer in Australia (supermarkets, mainly) and all the POS computers are thin clients. They appear to run on some kind of Windows.
Yes! How do you think the elevator is going to climb the stairs? Elevators normally can't climb stairs. So it must use overlords in some incredibly technical way.
and this was why she believed that she didn't have to repay the loan, did she pay (at least interest on the loan) in the usual currency of non-overweight, non-sexually-repressed girls.
Most, but not all. Most of the suburbs (by area) are quiet residential streets, frequented by only a few people, with a very low crime rate. The inner city is an area with many different people coming and going. It has a low (not very low) crime rate.
I live in Melbourne, Australia, and have never felt unsafe walking around either the suburbs or the inner city.
This is more like a painter putting a painting somewhere in public view, but maybe down a back alley, and then standing on the main street directing people to it (perhaps demanding a fee, or just making you say hello). Then someone else gives out directions to the painting.
I'm not sure about the rest of the post, but this is wrong.
According to wikipedia, the tips of the blades spin up to 6 times the speed of the wind. Considering that, also according to wikipedia (Beaufort Scale), a "strong breeze" is around 44 km/h (27 mph), the tips of the blades could be spinning at 264 km/h (162 mph) on a reasonably windy day.
It depends on the environment you work in. I work in a large retail business, and we have lots and lots of sales reps from different suppliers come in (more than 10 per day, and they often stay for a fair while). These reps often change. They sign in, and get a visitor sticker, but really they could write anything in the sign in book.
I suppose the managers generally know who these reps are and keep an eye on it (I'm not actually sure), but most shop staff just see different reps all the time. If they were all verified by ringing up the company, and escorted, it would require several full time staff. It is not unusual for these reps to access the stock-room or offices.
Would a bank hire a manager that worked at a shipping company that has never even had a bank account in his life?
The only reason the answer to this question is no is because it would be very difficult to find someone who had never had a bank account. Otherwise, the situation of hiring managers who have no experience in the particular field is (in my experience) reasonably common. My uncle was a doctor who wound up in hospital management, then got a senior management position in a railway company.
Especially in senior management, where the roles are much more abstracted from the everyday work, the skills are the same across industries.
An interesting contrast to that is in the case of Woolworths (the largest retail group in Australia). Their CEO up until a few months ago had worked for them all his life, starting as a shelf-stacker, and I think the new guy has a similar history. They have a policy of promoting from within.
(a) Of course it was originally set up with government money, but the return gets plowed back into new research. The CSIRO does not turn a profit. For every success story there are a lot of failures.
(b)...
(c) The government has decided (in the way of governments around the world) the it is In The Interest Of The Taxpayers to have a government research agency that does research. This research often supports Australian industry.
And by this patent being enforced, Australian taxpayers are getting money back. It doesn't go into consolidated revenue, but goes to a government agency. It's still a branch of the government getting the money, albeit a reasonably independent branch.
Yeah, because US taxpayers supported this research? (Hint: the website is www.csiro.au)
Seriously, most of the CSIRO's income comes from either (a) royalties on patents it has, or (b) partnerships with private companies.
Wireless networking isn't trivial, and it took a lot of research (hence money) to get it to be technically feasible. Why shouldn't CSIRO be able to claim royalties on technologies it invented?
Yeah, I've seen plenty of major bands (like top 10) on MySpace with clips. Will they have to get special exemptions? If it's just an automated tool, they'd have to some how.
And the population density of Australia = 2.65/km, compared to 30/km for the US. Remember, we're 2 million square kilometres smaller than the US (around 20% smaller) but we've got around 280 million fewer people (that's around 94% smaller).
hell this might be the push we need to have average joe buy a new computer and broadband...
Yes, because I can see this being a real selling point. Potential broadband customer: "Why should I get broadband?" Salesman: "Then you can watch video ads!" PBC: "..."
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How could these two goals be achieved concurrently? By having as many workers as possible working from their own home. Which means telecommuting. Now, if the entire population is keeping inside their homes, they will seek something to occupy themselves. Part of this will be checking on their families, friends etc.. Which will likely be done either over the phone or internet. Part of this will be entertainment to assuage the boredom. Part of this will come from the internet. When people are on the internet looking for entertainment, where do they go? Often, to YouTube. Hence massively increased traffic to sites like YouTube, although I think these sites will crash long before the internet as a whole does.
That standard is out of date. IPoAC now has QoS, which would help in prioritizing traffic. Remember, the problem is with bird flu in humans. It's already in birds, so it wouldn't be such a catastrophy and we can implement IPoAC now, to provide peak capacity.
The vast majority of Vista sales will be OEM versions, sold with new computers to people who don't know what a graphics card is, let alone DirectX, Nvidia or ATI. Vista will sell a lot of copies, gamers will stick with XP and Nvidia and ATI will be locked out of having their graphics cards in new computers. Intel would probably improve their graphics chipsets (introduce a deluxe model or something), or some other company would come along.
MS holds all the power.
I think the main problem with this is copyright laws. Once an ISP actually starts caching data, rather than just passing it through, they either become liable for it or at least have to respond to takedown requests, which would make the system far too complicated to be workable.
Also, the email about new products does have useful information. To me, being informed of new products is useful, which is why I signed up for the email list.
I signed up for these emails, I like getting these emails, and I could easily unsubscribe to these emails. However, I know that at least one of these lists has had trouble with getting spam-filtered.
I could not find anything like this in the EULA for XP home, XP Pro or Vista Business. To view the EULAs, visit the Microsoft EULA page
I work for the largest retailer in Australia (supermarkets, mainly) and all the POS computers are thin clients. They appear to run on some kind of Windows.
Yes! How do you think the elevator is going to climb the stairs? Elevators normally can't climb stairs. So it must use overlords in some incredibly technical way.
welcome our new robotic, stair-climbing, elevator using overlords.
Most, but not all. Most of the suburbs (by area) are quiet residential streets, frequented by only a few people, with a very low crime rate. The inner city is an area with many different people coming and going. It has a low (not very low) crime rate.
I live in Melbourne, Australia, and have never felt unsafe walking around either the suburbs or the inner city.
This is more like a painter putting a painting somewhere in public view, but maybe down a back alley, and then standing on the main street directing people to it (perhaps demanding a fee, or just making you say hello). Then someone else gives out directions to the painting.
I'm not sure about the rest of the post, but this is wrong.
According to wikipedia, the tips of the blades spin up to 6 times the speed of the wind. Considering that, also according to wikipedia (Beaufort Scale), a "strong breeze" is around 44 km/h (27 mph), the tips of the blades could be spinning at 264 km/h (162 mph) on a reasonably windy day.
That's not exactly what I'd call slow.
It depends on the environment you work in. I work in a large retail business, and we have lots and lots of sales reps from different suppliers come in (more than 10 per day, and they often stay for a fair while). These reps often change. They sign in, and get a visitor sticker, but really they could write anything in the sign in book.
I suppose the managers generally know who these reps are and keep an eye on it (I'm not actually sure), but most shop staff just see different reps all the time. If they were all verified by ringing up the company, and escorted, it would require several full time staff. It is not unusual for these reps to access the stock-room or offices.
Especially in senior management, where the roles are much more abstracted from the everyday work, the skills are the same across industries.
An interesting contrast to that is in the case of Woolworths (the largest retail group in Australia). Their CEO up until a few months ago had worked for them all his life, starting as a shelf-stacker, and I think the new guy has a similar history. They have a policy of promoting from within.
(a) Of course it was originally set up with government money, but the return gets plowed back into new research. The CSIRO does not turn a profit. For every success story there are a lot of failures. (b)... (c) The government has decided (in the way of governments around the world) the it is In The Interest Of The Taxpayers to have a government research agency that does research. This research often supports Australian industry. And by this patent being enforced, Australian taxpayers are getting money back. It doesn't go into consolidated revenue, but goes to a government agency. It's still a branch of the government getting the money, albeit a reasonably independent branch.
Yeah, because US taxpayers supported this research? (Hint: the website is www.csiro.au)
Seriously, most of the CSIRO's income comes from either (a) royalties on patents it has, or (b) partnerships with private companies.
Wireless networking isn't trivial, and it took a lot of research (hence money) to get it to be technically feasible. Why shouldn't CSIRO be able to claim royalties on technologies it invented?
Yeah, I've seen plenty of major bands (like top 10) on MySpace with clips. Will they have to get special exemptions? If it's just an automated tool, they'd have to some how.
pwned
And, because we know that banning people from buying CDs will help CD sales...
And the population density of Australia = 2.65/km, compared to 30/km for the US. Remember, we're 2 million square kilometres smaller than the US (around 20% smaller) but we've got around 280 million fewer people (that's around 94% smaller).
Potential broadband customer: "Why should I get broadband?"
Salesman: "Then you can watch video ads!"
PBC: "..."