Do people really like the BlackBerry keyboards? Really??? I have to carry a BlackBerry and I find the keyboard to be poorly designed and difficult to use. I can type faster and more accurately on my wife's iPod Touch. Don't give me the, "you get used to the size," line. I also use a Palm Pixi. Its keyboard is about 15% smaller than the BlackBerry and I can whale out messages on that tiny keyboard. As a matter of fact, everybody plays with my Pixi for a few seconds comments in amazement at how nice the keyboard is, especially compared to the BlackBerry keyboards.
As an aside, RIP Pixi. I don't know what HP was thinking replacing the candy bar phone with what is effectively a Pre-Mini.
So you are saying that if she goes to a fast food restaurant, orders food and then begins throwing it at other customers she should get a refund? She had already consumed the seat. If there were a requirement for the refund there would be a huge opportunity for sabotage. Their competitors could fill the house with people who were all disruptive and get all their money back. I am sure competitors could find homeless people for the right fee.
In general almost everybody lives in that small of a place. Most rooms are not even that big. You cannot occupy more than one room at a time. Most rooms are defined by what is attached to the walls and what furniture is located in the room. As soon as you solve the furniture problem, everything else makes perfect sense--move the walls. The only thing I see that could make this better is if the functional walls raised up into the ceiling instead of sliding on the track.
The difference is that in 6 months the Facebook terms of service will change to make the payroll spreadsheet public. Anything posted to a social network is effectively public. There are other circumstances where freedom of speech and expression are not protected when the statements are false. Take for example making statements to a police officer. You cannot claim that you accused someone of rape just because you were pissed.
One thing to consider is that the principal did not randomly sit down students and have the students display their private posts. The information was already effectively public and the source was already known. This rant was long from private. The principal simply confirmed the source and investigated the veracity of the accusation.
Think about if the situation reverse. Has an act of pedophilia occurred and the principal had knowledge of the rumor, would the principal have some level of complicity if they did not drill down to understand the source of the accusation and accuracy of the statements?
What's not descriptive enough about vid002034.avi? I am sure searching for the vacation or family event will turn this video up in your search results without a problem.
Oddly enough the government did regulate the Internet in the early years. It wasn't until the early '90s that commercial activity was allowed on the Internet. Prior to that only academic and research entities were allowed. It could be argued that the early restrictive regulations of the Internet created an incubation environment that allowed the Internet to mature and surpass the offerings by commercial providers such as CompuServe and AOL.
The problem is that you cannot deregulate a monopoly and you cannot effectively regulate a complex and competitive industry. Keep in mind that utilities own the conduit along with the power generation service. The most effective solution is to highly regulate the monopoly and let free market forces drive the competitive industry. The company which "owns" the cable infrastructure should legally separated from the company that generates electricity if they want to maintain their protected monopoly position.
The same model should be applied to Internet services. Companies who own monopoly transit should not be allowed provide content. Hmmm, there are similar problems with banking. Companies which have special access to the fed should not be allowed to provide other non-lending related services.
FLOPS per dollar is the only measure that matters. With ARM's low cost, low footprint and low power consumption you would be surprised at the potential disruptive ability of ARM in the data center.
So what you are saying is that we can just NAT all of our resources. Instead of one person drinking a glass of water we can hide hundreds of people behind the glass and they can all share the glass of water.
Now that you are in a senior position, do you insure that people below you are generously paid? How much of a pay increase would you be willing to forgo in order to reward the people underneath you who contribute to your success?
I would even go as far as to say it could fit the legal merits of a cyber crime. The "patch" installed into a 3rd party "system" called Firefox without explicit permission from either the "system administrator" or the other vendor. The result of the action potentially created a back door on the overall system. Hmmm, I have seen people become felons under cyber crime laws for much less.
At the very least they should have been segmenting customer data. How could a single failure outside of a ten mile wide asteroid hit wipe out all customer data? Was everything stored in a single giant registry?
I see this a one of the single greatest failings in current system design. Top professionals trust tools more than data design and management processes. I would say the same thing if they were using ZFS or btrfs. Technology is NOT a solution. Technology is at most a tool that contributes to an overall solution. Without proper automated control systems and at least some form of manual verification reliance on pure technology solutions is little more than blind faith.
The ribbon provides easy and intuitive means for accessing common features. It does so, however, that the expense of less used features. With a menu system a reasonably competent person should be able to navigate through each menu hierarchy in short order and find the function they need. The new UI design basically takes a linearly complex problems and changes it to an O2 complex problem. With the new paradigm of embedding capabilities in hot spots, people have to understand the back-end in order to effectively operate the front-end. An even more egregious abuse of this line of UI design is the new chart editor in Excel. A thesis could be written on on how clumsy things operate so I will not go into any details here.
I think the point is this solar panel roads should be cost neutral when compared to current roads. Current roads are not nearly as durable as one might expect. If they are able to achieve cost parity with current road technology then the electric power generation is a net positive benefit. If they are unable to get the costs down or durability up then this will be a no go.
I personally think the larger problem is surface contour and flexibility. Most roads are not flat. There are constant curves to match the terrain or embankments for safer curves. If we are to use fixed rigid road panels there would have to be many different types of panels increasing the need for precise civil engineering.
Just like at the doctor's office; if you let others see your junk or take pictures using their network connected fancy junk picture taking machines then its on the network for everybody on a network to see.
I think the difference is that in years past a computer guy could earn an incredible living without knowing anything about business or specialized industries. Just keeping a system (computer, network, application) working was valuable enough in itself. Now almost all the general computing positions are a commodity and the real value growth is in combining computer knowledge with another specialization.
While Tesla does not make affordable cars, they have a clearly stated desire to make such cars as soon as they can reach the appropriate manufacturing scale. This pushes affordable cars more than you might think. The big auto makers see operating profit on Tesla's books and a well respected brand so they have to counter or face the possibility that Tesla may one day own the electric car market.
Ironically, government investment into Tesla creates more incentive for other auto makers to step up to the plate and build mainstream electric cars than direct investments in the auto makers for the same purpose. Investment in Tesla accelerates the possibility of Tesla reaching the mainstream first. Without Tesla nipping at their heals any direct investment in established auto makers would likely be soaked to keep the lights on for the "research and development" departments and product very little in the way of affordable electric cars.
Tesla also has a revered brand for which people are willing to pay.
On the manufacturing side they are some advantages as well. They have very few long term commitment contracts with suppliers who make parts that are irrelevant to electric cars. They are very few if any long term commitment contracts to labor organizations to keep organizational charts wide and heavy. They have few if any long term contracts with city, county or state governments regarding factory locations or employment levels. They have few if any long term leases on land and facilities that must be used or create a financial drag on the organization. They have few if any dealership agreements with odd inventory management clauses that cause inconsistent and inefficient bullwhip effects through the entire supply chain. They have few if any contracts with top executives who demand lavish lifestyles or are ineffectual without hundreds of subordinates that somehow make things happen in spite of their ignorance and egos.
On the down side, they do not have a manufacturing plan or a well built organization to support such a plant. With the big automakers suffering Tesla will likely get to pick the cream of the crop of executives and management to create this without falling into many of the pitfall often plagued by young organizations.
It is funny that you point to styles as being a reason to keep MS-Word around because styles is the one feature that every other competing product does better the Microsoft. When people complained how difficult Microsoft's styles were, instead of fixing styles Microsoft introduced the formatting brush. One small step forward for Microsoft, one giant leap back for mankind.
OK, I realize that the article is talking about word processors in general, but I am just saying . . .
There is a big difference between disagreeing with someone and contriving insulting names. Contrived insults do not come from a place of disagreement, but from deep seated loathing. While "O-dumb-a" might be viewed as a "safe" insult by some, it is only a step away from a long used racial slur--which is the insult's likely origin.
Smart energy grids are not meant to turn things off during peak hours, but rather to coordinate use across a larger population.
First, if all the appliances in a home able able to share information and coordinate their use, the clothes dryer can shift down to a power save mode when the A/C needs to ramp up. Likewise, the refrigerator can schedule some time to keep the food cold knowing that the drying cycle is almost up. By coordinating these events you consume the same amount of power overall but your peak consumption is greatly reduced.
The energy providers can achieve even greater peak reduction by having houses coordinate amongst themselves. Ultimately devices can either delay consumption by short amounts of time to avoid pushing the peak higher or opportunistically consume power immediately avoiding their contribution to a pending peak in demand.
Personally I think that the biggest changes to create energy savings would be for refrigerators and ovens/stoves to vent all their hot exhaust outside during the summer.
There shouldn't be too much overhead being most modern OSs use shared code pages and copy on write memory management.
While pages generally do not crash browsers plug-ins do! By launching the plug-ins with the page rendering process the browser should be able to isolate and minimize the impact.
If the engineers design the changes intelligently all the page metadata should remain within the parent process. This greatly simplifies caching and coherency--which they appear to be discussing in the article. The only components that should be pushed into the child processes are things which execute uncontrolled and untrusted content.
It sounds like all Michigan needs is a few entrepreneurs. I suspect, however, that the cost of living is too high preventing a real rich environment for innovation and grass roots start-ups from sprouting.
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Do people really like the BlackBerry keyboards? Really??? I have to carry a BlackBerry and I find the keyboard to be poorly designed and difficult to use. I can type faster and more accurately on my wife's iPod Touch. Don't give me the, "you get used to the size," line. I also use a Palm Pixi. Its keyboard is about 15% smaller than the BlackBerry and I can whale out messages on that tiny keyboard. As a matter of fact, everybody plays with my Pixi for a few seconds comments in amazement at how nice the keyboard is, especially compared to the BlackBerry keyboards.
As an aside, RIP Pixi. I don't know what HP was thinking replacing the candy bar phone with what is effectively a Pre-Mini.
So you are saying that if she goes to a fast food restaurant, orders food and then begins throwing it at other customers she should get a refund? She had already consumed the seat. If there were a requirement for the refund there would be a huge opportunity for sabotage. Their competitors could fill the house with people who were all disruptive and get all their money back. I am sure competitors could find homeless people for the right fee.
In general almost everybody lives in that small of a place. Most rooms are not even that big. You cannot occupy more than one room at a time. Most rooms are defined by what is attached to the walls and what furniture is located in the room. As soon as you solve the furniture problem, everything else makes perfect sense--move the walls. The only thing I see that could make this better is if the functional walls raised up into the ceiling instead of sliding on the track.
The difference is that in 6 months the Facebook terms of service will change to make the payroll spreadsheet public. Anything posted to a social network is effectively public. There are other circumstances where freedom of speech and expression are not protected when the statements are false. Take for example making statements to a police officer. You cannot claim that you accused someone of rape just because you were pissed.
One thing to consider is that the principal did not randomly sit down students and have the students display their private posts. The information was already effectively public and the source was already known. This rant was long from private. The principal simply confirmed the source and investigated the veracity of the accusation.
Think about if the situation reverse. Has an act of pedophilia occurred and the principal had knowledge of the rumor, would the principal have some level of complicity if they did not drill down to understand the source of the accusation and accuracy of the statements?
What's not descriptive enough about vid002034.avi? I am sure searching for the vacation or family event will turn this video up in your search results without a problem.
Oddly enough the government did regulate the Internet in the early years. It wasn't until the early '90s that commercial activity was allowed on the Internet. Prior to that only academic and research entities were allowed. It could be argued that the early restrictive regulations of the Internet created an incubation environment that allowed the Internet to mature and surpass the offerings by commercial providers such as CompuServe and AOL.
The problem is that you cannot deregulate a monopoly and you cannot effectively regulate a complex and competitive industry. Keep in mind that utilities own the conduit along with the power generation service. The most effective solution is to highly regulate the monopoly and let free market forces drive the competitive industry. The company which "owns" the cable infrastructure should legally separated from the company that generates electricity if they want to maintain their protected monopoly position.
The same model should be applied to Internet services. Companies who own monopoly transit should not be allowed provide content. Hmmm, there are similar problems with banking. Companies which have special access to the fed should not be allowed to provide other non-lending related services.
FLOPS per dollar is the only measure that matters. With ARM's low cost, low footprint and low power consumption you would be surprised at the potential disruptive ability of ARM in the data center.
So what you are saying is that we can just NAT all of our resources. Instead of one person drinking a glass of water we can hide hundreds of people behind the glass and they can all share the glass of water.
Close, but an S-trap is more likely at the base of your toilet. The thingie under your sink is a P-trap.
Now that you are in a senior position, do you insure that people below you are generously paid? How much of a pay increase would you be willing to forgo in order to reward the people underneath you who contribute to your success?
I would even go as far as to say it could fit the legal merits of a cyber crime. The "patch" installed into a 3rd party "system" called Firefox without explicit permission from either the "system administrator" or the other vendor. The result of the action potentially created a back door on the overall system. Hmmm, I have seen people become felons under cyber crime laws for much less.
At the very least they should have been segmenting customer data. How could a single failure outside of a ten mile wide asteroid hit wipe out all customer data? Was everything stored in a single giant registry? I see this a one of the single greatest failings in current system design. Top professionals trust tools more than data design and management processes. I would say the same thing if they were using ZFS or btrfs. Technology is NOT a solution. Technology is at most a tool that contributes to an overall solution. Without proper automated control systems and at least some form of manual verification reliance on pure technology solutions is little more than blind faith.
The ribbon provides easy and intuitive means for accessing common features. It does so, however, that the expense of less used features. With a menu system a reasonably competent person should be able to navigate through each menu hierarchy in short order and find the function they need. The new UI design basically takes a linearly complex problems and changes it to an O2 complex problem. With the new paradigm of embedding capabilities in hot spots, people have to understand the back-end in order to effectively operate the front-end. An even more egregious abuse of this line of UI design is the new chart editor in Excel. A thesis could be written on on how clumsy things operate so I will not go into any details here.
I think the point is this solar panel roads should be cost neutral when compared to current roads. Current roads are not nearly as durable as one might expect. If they are able to achieve cost parity with current road technology then the electric power generation is a net positive benefit. If they are unable to get the costs down or durability up then this will be a no go.
I personally think the larger problem is surface contour and flexibility. Most roads are not flat. There are constant curves to match the terrain or embankments for safer curves. If we are to use fixed rigid road panels there would have to be many different types of panels increasing the need for precise civil engineering.
Just like at the doctor's office; if you let others see your junk or take pictures using their network connected fancy junk picture taking machines then its on the network for everybody on a network to see.
I think the difference is that in years past a computer guy could earn an incredible living without knowing anything about business or specialized industries. Just keeping a system (computer, network, application) working was valuable enough in itself. Now almost all the general computing positions are a commodity and the real value growth is in combining computer knowledge with another specialization.
While Tesla does not make affordable cars, they have a clearly stated desire to make such cars as soon as they can reach the appropriate manufacturing scale. This pushes affordable cars more than you might think. The big auto makers see operating profit on Tesla's books and a well respected brand so they have to counter or face the possibility that Tesla may one day own the electric car market.
Ironically, government investment into Tesla creates more incentive for other auto makers to step up to the plate and build mainstream electric cars than direct investments in the auto makers for the same purpose. Investment in Tesla accelerates the possibility of Tesla reaching the mainstream first. Without Tesla nipping at their heals any direct investment in established auto makers would likely be soaked to keep the lights on for the "research and development" departments and product very little in the way of affordable electric cars.
Tesla also has a revered brand for which people are willing to pay.
On the manufacturing side they are some advantages as well. They have very few long term commitment contracts with suppliers who make parts that are irrelevant to electric cars. They are very few if any long term commitment contracts to labor organizations to keep organizational charts wide and heavy. They have few if any long term contracts with city, county or state governments regarding factory locations or employment levels. They have few if any long term leases on land and facilities that must be used or create a financial drag on the organization. They have few if any dealership agreements with odd inventory management clauses that cause inconsistent and inefficient bullwhip effects through the entire supply chain. They have few if any contracts with top executives who demand lavish lifestyles or are ineffectual without hundreds of subordinates that somehow make things happen in spite of their ignorance and egos.
On the down side, they do not have a manufacturing plan or a well built organization to support such a plant. With the big automakers suffering Tesla will likely get to pick the cream of the crop of executives and management to create this without falling into many of the pitfall often plagued by young organizations.
It is funny that you point to styles as being a reason to keep MS-Word around because styles is the one feature that every other competing product does better the Microsoft. When people complained how difficult Microsoft's styles were, instead of fixing styles Microsoft introduced the formatting brush. One small step forward for Microsoft, one giant leap back for mankind. OK, I realize that the article is talking about word processors in general, but I am just saying . . .
There is a big difference between disagreeing with someone and contriving insulting names. Contrived insults do not come from a place of disagreement, but from deep seated loathing. While "O-dumb-a" might be viewed as a "safe" insult by some, it is only a step away from a long used racial slur--which is the insult's likely origin.
Smart energy grids are not meant to turn things off during peak hours, but rather to coordinate use across a larger population.
First, if all the appliances in a home able able to share information and coordinate their use, the clothes dryer can shift down to a power save mode when the A/C needs to ramp up. Likewise, the refrigerator can schedule some time to keep the food cold knowing that the drying cycle is almost up. By coordinating these events you consume the same amount of power overall but your peak consumption is greatly reduced.
The energy providers can achieve even greater peak reduction by having houses coordinate amongst themselves. Ultimately devices can either delay consumption by short amounts of time to avoid pushing the peak higher or opportunistically consume power immediately avoiding their contribution to a pending peak in demand.
Personally I think that the biggest changes to create energy savings would be for refrigerators and ovens/stoves to vent all their hot exhaust outside during the summer.
There shouldn't be too much overhead being most modern OSs use shared code pages and copy on write memory management.
While pages generally do not crash browsers plug-ins do! By launching the plug-ins with the page rendering process the browser should be able to isolate and minimize the impact.
If the engineers design the changes intelligently all the page metadata should remain within the parent process. This greatly simplifies caching and coherency--which they appear to be discussing in the article. The only components that should be pushed into the child processes are things which execute uncontrolled and untrusted content.
It sounds like all Michigan needs is a few entrepreneurs. I suspect, however, that the cost of living is too high preventing a real rich environment for innovation and grass roots start-ups from sprouting.
Are you saying that the local police should be beholden to those who can afford to pay the most?