We will founder "synergistically". The Old, Proven Ways were not "synergistically" working so that the leading political indicators were trailing up, and the trailing political indicators were leading down.
Just because a CEO/CIO mentions the word "cloud", it doesn't mean they do not understand the concept. If you had read the article, you'll see the reasons they went to the cloud, the biggest seems to be they are tired of keeping a lot of excess capacity around for spikes of computing work. It is simply cheaper. And they aren't just tossing apps into the cloud. They (at least they claim) are evaluating the risk for each app and binning them accordingly. The ones with the highest risk get the most oversight.
They seem to believe they can get the security necessary in the cloud. Under that assumption, why should they duplicate cloud services when that is not part of any of GE's primary businesses? GE is a serious company, they aren't about to throw stuff into the cloud and jeopardize their company on the mere whim of a CEO or CIO. They'll have reams of documentation on how it can be achieved, what it will cost, the risks involved, etc.
What needs to happen is that the PACs get their tax exempt status taken away. They are not "in it for the public good". They are in it for crass political and financial reasons.
You mean the Republicans who got their seats because they gerrymandered their districts. When that happens, any old dolt can get elected. There is a reason Obama got elected twice, you cannot easily gerrymander the Presidential contest. And heartily disapprove of Obama, mainly due to Biden's foreign policy of bend over and pray they don't stick it in too hard.
Yes, some of us do know who Martin O'Malley is. He screwed up Baltimore as mayor and then decided to do to the rest of Maryland what he did to Baltimore as governor. Seeing Washington right next door, he decided his ego was big enough to encompass that as well and is now running for the Democrat nomination. But he doesn't have a vagina so this isn't his year.
You forgot to mention all that wasted effort on quantum mechanics...just to build some silly chips out of sand and a few other bits. That Einstein guy was a whack job. Relativity, he had no thought for GPS technology. He should have waiting until we had GPS and then produced the theory showing how it could work.
So, your argument is that of the theories physicists can think of, the only one that holds up is dark matter. I wasn't aware physicists have completed their theoretical musings on the Universe, Multiverse, WTFVerse. Did I miss the memo?
Yep, and being in academia won't save you either. You are over the hill and close to pushing up daisies if you are not a star by age 30 and bringing in your own salary plus that of your lab's workers.
You missed one. Just about every company has been taught over the years to be paranoid of the competition stealing their cookies, and the concept of "you do better by screwing the competition". Even in the absence of the millionaire to billionaire track, there would be an a push for this sort of technology. The cost of production is currently such that it is cheaper to produce a car with a single universal bus rather than two to isolate key engine components.
Normally, we would rely on government to capture these sort of externality costs (e.g., safety, security, etc.). With the current crowd in Washington, we can no longer rely on government. So we must wait until the bodies pile up and the courts grind out enough justice to raise the cost of not doing these systems properly.
The Mujahideen were already the Taliban, all the U.S. did was hasten Russia's retreat. They've have left eventually anyhow. The Taliban then proceeded to abuse the pop. When Al Qaeda came along, they gratefully accepted them and used them as shock troops to empty out a hamlet so they could populate with their own Pashtun crazies.
The Islamo-Fascists were already infiltrating Saddam's military. Left alone, they'd have taken Iraqi state with its armed forces intact. They had the support of the rest of the Mid-East money brokers, who also had plenty for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. The U.S. gave Iraq back to the Iraqis and they proceeded to make an Allah-Awful mess figuring what they really hated was each other.
Qaddafi was busy slaughtering his people. What the people the U.S. helped send him to the hereafter. What the Libyans did with their freedom afterward was entirely their own fault.
Your problem is that you believe in a Bunny World where indigenous people all happily got along were it not for the U.S. However, the only reason they looked stable from the outside is because that is what the ruling bastards projected. If you were a minority inside, your life was hell. Now that the ruling clans are reaping the fruits of their previous labor, it is somehow worse than what they were doing internally all along. Bullshit.
National Security Letter? So the U.S. government is forcing MS to force Winders 10 adoption making systems more bulletproof to nefarious snooping by the same government. Brilliant! You should be in pictures!
Oh yes, let's live in a country with no government services. Companies are clearly able to regulate their behavior to stop pollution, stop creating dangerous mechanical devices, stop producing penis enlargement pills with the side effect of killing the patients before enough people cotton on and stop buying them, etc.
Make sure you are well educated on every good and service you use from the private sector, they have your well-being at heart. And please order ahead for your tombstone from Joe's Tombstones and Fishing Supplies, Joe wants you to know he'll be there for your corpse when you ate the wrong listeria encrusted salad.
The auto industry paid most of the money back. Depending upon accounting rules, the U.S. lost approx. $9.8 billion to $16 billion. However, this does not count the dent in the U.S. economy and ultimately the tax receipts of NOT bailing out the auto industry (actually, just GM and Chrysler). That dent would have been very large and many people thrown out of work, not least the supply chain for that industry. There is a similar story with the banks paying their wad back.
Whether you like it or not, a government is a giant insurance policy. We use it to protect the people from getting whacked, something the whiners about the ACA conveniently forget (would that we were all rich and employed). One can argue the banks and Wall Street are too big, and I'd heartily support breaking the former up and reducing the influence of the latter or at least taxing those leeches a lot more.
Problems, I think, in general come about because some issue to be solved is complex with interlocking parts. It all the parts were more or less disassociated from each other, they'd already have small solutions, and gluing them together might give a sort of federated solution to something that probably isn't such a big issue to begin with, mainly because the pieces are already doing the job and the interactions are minimal.
The problem with adding people is lines of communication forced by interacting problem parts. One has to forge agreements, discover a global architecture (not some silly whack job such as agile produces), decide on layers of authority, etc.
Or when the kids turn on the TV or their video games, violence is glorified as a way of solving whatever "problems" the little bastards think they have.
Schools do bear some of the blame. But let's not forget the sainted American people who have no problem letting Johnny do whatever the hell he pleases until he gets caught by the police. Or the parents who are busy praising Johnny no matter what trouble he gets into because they don't want to cause self-esteem issues. Or the parents that are too busy with their own lives to bother paying attention to their sprogs. Or parents who figure it is the schools' job to raise and discipline their sprogs so they can take no responsibility themselves.
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Hey, could you tell Putin that? I'm positive he'll listen to you.
We will founder "synergistically". The Old, Proven Ways were not "synergistically" working so that the leading political indicators were trailing up, and the trailing political indicators were leading down.
I feel dirty.
Just because a CEO/CIO mentions the word "cloud", it doesn't mean they do not understand the concept. If you had read the article, you'll see the reasons they went to the cloud, the biggest seems to be they are tired of keeping a lot of excess capacity around for spikes of computing work. It is simply cheaper. And they aren't just tossing apps into the cloud. They (at least they claim) are evaluating the risk for each app and binning them accordingly. The ones with the highest risk get the most oversight.
They seem to believe they can get the security necessary in the cloud. Under that assumption, why should they duplicate cloud services when that is not part of any of GE's primary businesses? GE is a serious company, they aren't about to throw stuff into the cloud and jeopardize their company on the mere whim of a CEO or CIO. They'll have reams of documentation on how it can be achieved, what it will cost, the risks involved, etc.
What needs to happen is that the PACs get their tax exempt status taken away. They are not "in it for the public good". They are in it for crass political and financial reasons.
You mean the Republicans who got their seats because they gerrymandered their districts. When that happens, any old dolt can get elected. There is a reason Obama got elected twice, you cannot easily gerrymander the Presidential contest. And heartily disapprove of Obama, mainly due to Biden's foreign policy of bend over and pray they don't stick it in too hard.
Yes, some of us do know who Martin O'Malley is. He screwed up Baltimore as mayor and then decided to do to the rest of Maryland what he did to Baltimore as governor. Seeing Washington right next door, he decided his ego was big enough to encompass that as well and is now running for the Democrat nomination. But he doesn't have a vagina so this isn't his year.
See Greenland.
You forgot to mention all that wasted effort on quantum mechanics...just to build some silly chips out of sand and a few other bits. That Einstein guy was a whack job. Relativity, he had no thought for GPS technology. He should have waiting until we had GPS and then produced the theory showing how it could work.
So, your argument is that of the theories physicists can think of, the only one that holds up is dark matter. I wasn't aware physicists have completed their theoretical musings on the Universe, Multiverse, WTFVerse. Did I miss the memo?
As opposed to the wankfest that is climate change denial, possibly? Relax, Jesus will save us...err...anyone got his number, just in case?
Yep, and being in academia won't save you either. You are over the hill and close to pushing up daisies if you are not a star by age 30 and bringing in your own salary plus that of your lab's workers.
You missed one. Just about every company has been taught over the years to be paranoid of the competition stealing their cookies, and the concept of "you do better by screwing the competition". Even in the absence of the millionaire to billionaire track, there would be an a push for this sort of technology. The cost of production is currently such that it is cheaper to produce a car with a single universal bus rather than two to isolate key engine components.
Normally, we would rely on government to capture these sort of externality costs (e.g., safety, security, etc.). With the current crowd in Washington, we can no longer rely on government. So we must wait until the bodies pile up and the courts grind out enough justice to raise the cost of not doing these systems properly.
Really? If you were caught advertently or inadvertently causing a security breach at your company, we could line you up along the wall as well?
The Mujahideen were already the Taliban, all the U.S. did was hasten Russia's retreat. They've have left eventually anyhow. The Taliban then proceeded to abuse the pop. When Al Qaeda came along, they gratefully accepted them and used them as shock troops to empty out a hamlet so they could populate with their own Pashtun crazies.
The Islamo-Fascists were already infiltrating Saddam's military. Left alone, they'd have taken Iraqi state with its armed forces intact. They had the support of the rest of the Mid-East money brokers, who also had plenty for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. The U.S. gave Iraq back to the Iraqis and they proceeded to make an Allah-Awful mess figuring what they really hated was each other.
Qaddafi was busy slaughtering his people. What the people the U.S. helped send him to the hereafter. What the Libyans did with their freedom afterward was entirely their own fault.
Your problem is that you believe in a Bunny World where indigenous people all happily got along were it not for the U.S. However, the only reason they looked stable from the outside is because that is what the ruling bastards projected. If you were a minority inside, your life was hell. Now that the ruling clans are reaping the fruits of their previous labor, it is somehow worse than what they were doing internally all along. Bullshit.
National Security Letter? So the U.S. government is forcing MS to force Winders 10 adoption making systems more bulletproof to nefarious snooping by the same government. Brilliant! You should be in pictures!
Or...or...or combining rap music with real...err...classical music. Classical Rap, kind of like Folk Rap except without all the sex and violence.
Oh yes, let's live in a country with no government services. Companies are clearly able to regulate their behavior to stop pollution, stop creating dangerous mechanical devices, stop producing penis enlargement pills with the side effect of killing the patients before enough people cotton on and stop buying them, etc.
Make sure you are well educated on every good and service you use from the private sector, they have your well-being at heart. And please order ahead for your tombstone from Joe's Tombstones and Fishing Supplies, Joe wants you to know he'll be there for your corpse when you ate the wrong listeria encrusted salad.
It would seem electric cars are simply giving mean people another way to express just how mean they can be.
The auto industry paid most of the money back. Depending upon accounting rules, the U.S. lost approx. $9.8 billion to $16 billion. However, this does not count the dent in the U.S. economy and ultimately the tax receipts of NOT bailing out the auto industry (actually, just GM and Chrysler). That dent would have been very large and many people thrown out of work, not least the supply chain for that industry. There is a similar story with the banks paying their wad back.
Whether you like it or not, a government is a giant insurance policy. We use it to protect the people from getting whacked, something the whiners about the ACA conveniently forget (would that we were all rich and employed). One can argue the banks and Wall Street are too big, and I'd heartily support breaking the former up and reducing the influence of the latter or at least taxing those leeches a lot more.
Or Texas.
Problems, I think, in general come about because some issue to be solved is complex with interlocking parts. It all the parts were more or less disassociated from each other, they'd already have small solutions, and gluing them together might give a sort of federated solution to something that probably isn't such a big issue to begin with, mainly because the pieces are already doing the job and the interactions are minimal.
The problem with adding people is lines of communication forced by interacting problem parts. One has to forge agreements, discover a global architecture (not some silly whack job such as agile produces), decide on layers of authority, etc.
Yep, the chances of one getting us is small. On the other hand, if one does come, we'll look like foots just before we kiss our asses goodbye.
Nice wookie defense, straw men all. The problem is the American he-boy is taught that he's got a big dick if he has a big gun.
Or when the kids turn on the TV or their video games, violence is glorified as a way of solving whatever "problems" the little bastards think they have.
Schools do bear some of the blame. But let's not forget the sainted American people who have no problem letting Johnny do whatever the hell he pleases until he gets caught by the police. Or the parents who are busy praising Johnny no matter what trouble he gets into because they don't want to cause self-esteem issues. Or the parents that are too busy with their own lives to bother paying attention to their sprogs. Or parents who figure it is the schools' job to raise and discipline their sprogs so they can take no responsibility themselves.