I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how Bush made people sign for mortgages they didn't understand and/or simply couldn't afford to begin with.
You made a mistake in logic that no one else did. People are stating that Bush did nothing to protect people. You are distorting that statement, changing it to state those people claim Bush forced individuals into signing mortages.
The public who overwhelmingly has little to no understanding of introductory finance, let alone advanced mortgage financing is dependent upon the sales people and brokers who arrange mortages for them. The government knows this, which is why regulations were made to protect people - the new way of banking which has lead to the current situations is going around those regulations any way they can.
The goverment did nothing to stop this. They even helped companies circumvent the regulations, giving them special exclusions from the rules. Those companies, went ahead with their shady mortgage practices to increase posted earnings, and made inflated billions until they destroyed the system their business was based on.
So the prevailing thought here is that the current administration should have listened to economic advisers and done something about this before we got to where we are, rather than enabling the situation and watching it crumble. Bush didn't make anyone take out a mortgage, but he allowed companies to make irresponsible short-term gains while fleecing their customers leading to the destruction of an entire market. That frustrates the people who "get it"... It's a valid gripe in my opinion.
A classic case of the misunderstood tech... Its a popular meme here.
You obviously have an issue with soft skills and your boss - the two of you were having a communication breakdown. If you spoke to eachother, and mutually agreed upon your job goals, then defined some metrics together, you'd be setting yourself up for success rather than having this misunderstanding about your performance review.
Just punting and hoping the business side recognizes your technical superiority is crazy, regardless of how good/lucky you are.
If they are completely clueless, explain what you can do for them, get them to agree to something close to that and upon how it will be observed/measured. You often need to help your managers understand how to manage IT, as they are often not techs themselves.
Clearly since it's of no value to you, it follows that it has no value at all, hmm?
I find that to be an odd stance to take seeing as how profitable and popular social networking services like Facebook and Myspace are. Similarly to yourself I may not especially care for these services, but I wouldn't stretch that to try to convince people those services are valueless. Overvalued? Perhaps, maybe even probably.
Your stance however just makes you seem out of touch. The services aren't evil by nature and you choose what information you want to share - its not stupid to have a profile on a social networking site. Really.
I've used wireless on an XP unit at KSU without any issue about antivirus - I didn't find them to be picky at all. I've since transfered closer to work in Cleveland, this was just last year tho that I was connecting regularly.
What issues did you have exactly with Kent being picky about AV software? How did they enforce this policy?
How much revenue potential for Mozilla is there in using MSN search as the default?
Google pays big bucks to be the default on Firefox, and its Mozillas primary financial contributor. Maybe there isn't any conspiracy and it just makes the most financial sense for these browsers to use Google as the default because thats where their money comes from.Or is MS offering the same kind of cash that Google is?
I've gotten the fingerprinter reader working on a T43 a year or 2 ago and I'm sure biometrics have developed well sense then - you should be able to get support with some work. It took me some work, but it ended up working fine. For that Vaio, I believe that series uses a UPEK reader which appears to be relatively well supported: http://www.upek.com/support/dl_linux_bsp.asp
network adapter support is problem free? I still hear about a lot of problems with wireless nics. Granted they can often be worked around, but getting wireless working without being flaky is far from brainless. Windows isn't much better here, but I think my mom would figure it out in windows before she would figure it out on linux.
Video card support is good? I'd call it mediocre at best... You can spend 100 bucks or more on a card and you don't have drivers which can reliably utilize that power you paid for. 3d? Possibly, but 2d is more likely. Compositing? That's a maybe also.
I'm a Gentoo user. I actively avoid using windows, but I feel I have a realistic outlook on linux. Some around here do not.
...they are just not providing the access themselves.
The argument that this sets a bad precedent is BS. If you wanted to say that, then you should talk about packet filtering and bandwidth throttling, but dropping usenet access is meaningless in this regard.
All said and done, this whole usenet thing is a lot of noise about nothing. Likely because a lot of people misunderstand what Usenet is, how its accessed, and what the ISPs decision really means much like this article misses the boat.
Rtfa, the only content that prompted the attacks was fake illegal content that MD themselves placed on R3 servers. There never was ANY illegal content involved in this situation. They only attacked when R3 cut off MD's access.
By all means tho, don't let the facts get in the way of your ideas.
Thank you. I would have modded you up but your already a 5. This motto of theirs is so oft-misrepresented. Its good to see someone getting it right and sharing that info.
Because most of the jobs that I can think of that could be performed at home on a computer don't require a lot of Internet access. Maybe transferring one or two files from the office network but not any kind of constant data transfer back / forth.
Then you factor in that with so many people at home they'll probably be spending more time slacking off / surfing the net. But people do that at work anyway (I'm a webmaster and I see traffic spikes Monday morning after a weekend slowdown which suggests that people spend most of their time surfing the net from work) so I'm just wondering how you even begin to go about modeling something like that ?
Working from home - for many this is going to require a VPN connection, especially for people not accustomed to working remotely. Thats going to require some talk back and forth to keep the tunnel open. Workers accustomed to being on the LAN probably have their mail clients configured in a chatty manner - I know I have different Notes settings for office and remote use, and my office setting is very chatty and noticeably impacts my network responsiveness when out of office. Security software, Active Directory, System Inventory Management... I could think of a lot of corporate environment background services that are negligible on the LAN. Send an entire city of employees home to work over a VPN connection, and I wouldn't be surprised if you encountered some load issues. Their proposition may be far fetched, but if we stick to the situation they introduced, I think there are some realistic network challenges.
As for modeling, I have a guess. They aren't going to do modeling for small scale businesses - corporations are what they'd pay attention to. In that situation, I could see how some reasonable models could emerge - modeling an office of 20 employees in an accurate/useful way could be challenging because a given individual whose usage is an outlier can throw off your model. Model an office of 500 employees, and the individual becomes far less important while the average of all users carries a lot more weight - you could do the math and come out with a reasonable range of error. The more people you put into the mix, like model an entire city, and you are probably even more likely to come out with something accurate - the curves become more consistent with a larger sample population. If you look at the historical usage for a group of ten houses, there could be some months where usage spikes make your predictions wrong. Model the usage for the continental US looking at historical patterns, and its not hard to get the numbers close.
The important difference here is that the heat exchanger in shuttle pcs uses heat pipes which thru the use of a pressurized fluid, utilize phase change to transport heat.
Phase change systems include heat pipes and those using compressors. Liquid cooling with pcs includes pumps, tubing/piping, and a liquid - the fluid never changes to a gas. In this way, your point does not apply to the liquid cooling topic.
HVAC cost would not be affected impressively the way you imply - you said you didn't feel the heat coming off, but that does not mean less thermal energy is being dissipated. It just means that same amount of thermal energy is being dissipated in a way thats less noticeable when you stand next to it. That energy will build up in an enclosed room unless proper HVAC systems are countering the effect.
Seperate partitions for your os, paging, games, and apps works well for you? Get a clue - your killing your real world read performance seeking across four different partitions. That's a lot of ground your HDD is covering between each partition everytime it needs to switch between your illogical partition layout
Please note this statement will be subject to legal challenge when the case comes to court. In the meantime, feel free to rant and rave about the big hand of media conglomerates smashing content viewers who wish to avoid paying fees for their activities.
NOTE: This post does not argue any point of view and merely points out very obvious facts. When it gets modded down as redundant or flamebait or troll, that will speak volumes for the crowd that moderates postings.
In fact, the form and tact of your wording does give your statement a position and you are thus arguing a point. While I will not mod you for it, I will call you on it. The wordchoice "rant and rave" is commonly interpreted with a negative connotation. Combine that with the statement "feel free", where you are giving permission thereby placing yourself in a position of benevolent authority, when no one needs your permission if they care to "rant and rave"... And it then becomes even more inarguable that you have a stance and aren't merely pointing out obvious facts. Its also clear your a griefer about the moderation system, as your so self concious about it you make innaccurate predictions in an apparent attempt to game the system.
So much for "Do no evil" (of course, Google has acted contrary to that self-righteous and self-congratulatory credo for years now
Google never stated that "self-righteous and self-congratulatory credo". Its a pervasive misquote continually put forth by people who don't check the original source. The correct quote is "Don't be evil" which indicates a "core value", not infallibility. Its a big company employing many regular humans who make mistakes.
Our informal corporate motto is "Don't be evil." We Googlers generally relate those words to the way we serve our users--as well we should. But being "a different kind of company" encompasses more than the products we make and the business we're building; it means making sure that our core values inform our conduct in all aspects of our lives as Google employees.
That people don't consciously think something, let alone admit to thinking something, doesn't mean their behavior isn't driven by it.
Like getting married... You don't hear anyone saying I'm getting married in order to foster a stable environment in which to procreate, despite the fact that its the primary driver. You'll hear words like love and commitment, but those are logical rationalizations that mask the base instinct upon which the institution of marriage is built.
Yes he is saying that. So am I. Find me a reference that shows otherwise and I'll hear you out.
This is the correct quote that the Bill Gates 640K meme likely originated from:
"So that's a 1 MB address space. And in that original design I took the upper 340k and decided that a certain amount should be for video memory, a certain amount for the ROM and I/O, and that left 640k for general purpose memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640k memory barrier; the limit of how much memory you can put to these machines. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. . That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem."
You can enjoy in audio format here:
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=39006
With a failure like this you'd be a sucker to pay for recovery. All you need is to transplant the circuit board from another drive of the same drive model... This had nothing to do with the platters. You could look for a used model online or buy new, and get your data back for less than a hundred bucks.
...Because your an authority on Information Warfare? Come on, feeding another culture/country information they do not currently have access to can have a great effect on whether or not they support a war their country is fighting. If the country is not behind the war, the effort will be much less likely to succeed.
The company has, for example, claimed that in one case we sent a reviewer material that did not come from any Britannica publication. When the company made this point to us in private we asked for details, but it provided none. Now Britannica has identified the review in question as being on ethanol. We have checked the original e-mail that we sent to the reviewer who looked at the Britannica article on ethanol, and it is clear to us that all the reviewer's comments refer to specific paragraphs from Britannica.
Perhaps your right, but the people I deal with on a daily basis view the PC as a cumbersome device that as often as it helps, it hurts productivity. I'll concede the point you made about home video, however there are plenty of good working models for online photo management, which allows the all important sharing and archival of photos.
Every subscription model that has failed has done so due to the platform and implementation. Social networking sites stand as a good example. There are hundreds/thousands of sites which have attempted to do this, however only a couple have flourished - due to a competitive advantage in their specific implementation. Another tired example is the iPod - it wasn't the first mp3 player, but its implementation of the same old thing was just better. This can make all the difference.
The thought that people don't want a subscription model to *anything* is ludicrous though. Not to mention, the implementation I'm thinking of is more a utility model than a subscription model... This service would be like their cable, water, electric, gas, phone, newspaper, etc. If an inexpensive alternative device to the traditional PC can be formulated, which does what people want to do rather than trying to do everything under the sun... Someone will get the platform and implementation right, and people will literally move over in herds.
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You made a mistake in logic that no one else did. People are stating that Bush did nothing to protect people. You are distorting that statement, changing it to state those people claim Bush forced individuals into signing mortages.
The public who overwhelmingly has little to no understanding of introductory finance, let alone advanced mortgage financing is dependent upon the sales people and brokers who arrange mortages for them. The government knows this, which is why regulations were made to protect people - the new way of banking which has lead to the current situations is going around those regulations any way they can.
The goverment did nothing to stop this. They even helped companies circumvent the regulations, giving them special exclusions from the rules. Those companies, went ahead with their shady mortgage practices to increase posted earnings, and made inflated billions until they destroyed the system their business was based on.
So the prevailing thought here is that the current administration should have listened to economic advisers and done something about this before we got to where we are, rather than enabling the situation and watching it crumble. Bush didn't make anyone take out a mortgage, but he allowed companies to make irresponsible short-term gains while fleecing their customers leading to the destruction of an entire market. That frustrates the people who "get it"... It's a valid gripe in my opinion.
HTML/CSS: http://htmldog.com/
Very clear and to the point for the basics - its a great quick reference for those too lazy or uninterested who still write code for the web.
A classic case of the misunderstood tech... Its a popular meme here.
You obviously have an issue with soft skills and your boss - the two of you were having a communication breakdown. If you spoke to eachother, and mutually agreed upon your job goals, then defined some metrics together, you'd be setting yourself up for success rather than having this misunderstanding about your performance review.
Just punting and hoping the business side recognizes your technical superiority is crazy, regardless of how good/lucky you are.
If they are completely clueless, explain what you can do for them, get them to agree to something close to that and upon how it will be observed/measured. You often need to help your managers understand how to manage IT, as they are often not techs themselves.
Clearly since it's of no value to you, it follows that it has no value at all, hmm?
I find that to be an odd stance to take seeing as how profitable and popular social networking services like Facebook and Myspace are. Similarly to yourself I may not especially care for these services, but I wouldn't stretch that to try to convince people those services are valueless. Overvalued? Perhaps, maybe even probably.
Your stance however just makes you seem out of touch. The services aren't evil by nature and you choose what information you want to share - its not stupid to have a profile on a social networking site. Really.
I've used wireless on an XP unit at KSU without any issue about antivirus - I didn't find them to be picky at all. I've since transfered closer to work in Cleveland, this was just last year tho that I was connecting regularly.
What issues did you have exactly with Kent being picky about AV software? How did they enforce this policy?
How much revenue potential for Mozilla is there in using MSN search as the default?
Google pays big bucks to be the default on Firefox, and its Mozillas primary financial contributor. Maybe there isn't any conspiracy and it just makes the most financial sense for these browsers to use Google as the default because thats where their money comes from.Or is MS offering the same kind of cash that Google is?
The same goes for the other browsers also.
I've gotten the fingerprinter reader working on a T43 a year or 2 ago and I'm sure biometrics have developed well sense then - you should be able to get support with some work. It took me some work, but it ended up working fine. For that Vaio, I believe that series uses a UPEK reader which appears to be relatively well supported:
http://www.upek.com/support/dl_linux_bsp.asp
I used this guide, which should also apply fairly well to your situation as its tho same fingerprint reader I think:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader
network adapter support is problem free? I still hear about a lot of problems with wireless nics. Granted they can often be worked around, but getting wireless working without being flaky is far from brainless. Windows isn't much better here, but I think my mom would figure it out in windows before she would figure it out on linux.
Video card support is good? I'd call it mediocre at best... You can spend 100 bucks or more on a card and you don't have drivers which can reliably utilize that power you paid for. 3d? Possibly, but 2d is more likely. Compositing? That's a maybe also.
I'm a Gentoo user. I actively avoid using windows, but I feel I have a realistic outlook on linux. Some around here do not.
...they are just not providing the access themselves.
The argument that this sets a bad precedent is BS. If you wanted to say that, then you should talk about packet filtering and bandwidth throttling, but dropping usenet access is meaningless in this regard.
All said and done, this whole usenet thing is a lot of noise about nothing. Likely because a lot of people misunderstand what Usenet is, how its accessed, and what the ISPs decision really means much like this article misses the boat.
Rtfa, the only content that prompted the attacks was fake illegal content that MD themselves placed on R3 servers. There never was ANY illegal content involved in this situation. They only attacked when R3 cut off MD's access.
By all means tho, don't let the facts get in the way of your ideas.
Thank you. I would have modded you up but your already a 5. This motto of theirs is so oft-misrepresented. Its good to see someone getting it right and sharing that info.
Working from home - for many this is going to require a VPN connection, especially for people not accustomed to working remotely. Thats going to require some talk back and forth to keep the tunnel open. Workers accustomed to being on the LAN probably have their mail clients configured in a chatty manner - I know I have different Notes settings for office and remote use, and my office setting is very chatty and noticeably impacts my network responsiveness when out of office. Security software, Active Directory, System Inventory Management... I could think of a lot of corporate environment background services that are negligible on the LAN. Send an entire city of employees home to work over a VPN connection, and I wouldn't be surprised if you encountered some load issues. Their proposition may be far fetched, but if we stick to the situation they introduced, I think there are some realistic network challenges.
As for modeling, I have a guess. They aren't going to do modeling for small scale businesses - corporations are what they'd pay attention to. In that situation, I could see how some reasonable models could emerge - modeling an office of 20 employees in an accurate/useful way could be challenging because a given individual whose usage is an outlier can throw off your model. Model an office of 500 employees, and the individual becomes far less important while the average of all users carries a lot more weight - you could do the math and come out with a reasonable range of error. The more people you put into the mix, like model an entire city, and you are probably even more likely to come out with something accurate - the curves become more consistent with a larger sample population. If you look at the historical usage for a group of ten houses, there could be some months where usage spikes make your predictions wrong. Model the usage for the continental US looking at historical patterns, and its not hard to get the numbers close.
The important difference here is that the heat exchanger in shuttle pcs uses heat pipes which thru the use of a pressurized fluid, utilize phase change to transport heat. Phase change systems include heat pipes and those using compressors. Liquid cooling with pcs includes pumps, tubing/piping, and a liquid - the fluid never changes to a gas. In this way, your point does not apply to the liquid cooling topic.
HVAC cost would not be affected impressively the way you imply - you said you didn't feel the heat coming off, but that does not mean less thermal energy is being dissipated. It just means that same amount of thermal energy is being dissipated in a way thats less noticeable when you stand next to it. That energy will build up in an enclosed room unless proper HVAC systems are countering the effect.
Seperate partitions for your os, paging, games, and apps works well for you? Get a clue - your killing your real world read performance seeking across four different partitions. That's a lot of ground your HDD is covering between each partition everytime it needs to switch between your illogical partition layout
Please note this statement will be subject to legal challenge when the case comes to court. In the meantime, feel free to rant and rave about the big hand of media conglomerates smashing content viewers who wish to avoid paying fees for their activities.
NOTE: This post does not argue any point of view and merely points out very obvious facts. When it gets modded down as redundant or flamebait or troll, that will speak volumes for the crowd that moderates postings.
In fact, the form and tact of your wording does give your statement a position and you are thus arguing a point. While I will not mod you for it, I will call you on it. The wordchoice "rant and rave" is commonly interpreted with a negative connotation. Combine that with the statement "feel free", where you are giving permission thereby placing yourself in a position of benevolent authority, when no one needs your permission if they care to "rant and rave"... And it then becomes even more inarguable that you have a stance and aren't merely pointing out obvious facts. Its also clear your a griefer about the moderation system, as your so self concious about it you make innaccurate predictions in an apparent attempt to game the system.
Well people ate plenty of roaches on Fear Factor and few people minded much except the people who were eating them.
I bet the cockroaches minded.So much for "Do no evil" (of course, Google has acted contrary to that self-righteous and self-congratulatory credo for years now
Google never stated that "self-righteous and self-congratulatory credo". Its a pervasive misquote continually put forth by people who don't check the original source. The correct quote is "Don't be evil" which indicates a "core value", not infallibility. Its a big company employing many regular humans who make mistakes.
Our informal corporate motto is "Don't be evil." We Googlers generally relate those words to the way we serve our users--as well we should. But being "a different kind of company" encompasses more than the products we make and the business we're building; it means making sure that our core values inform our conduct in all aspects of our lives as Google employees.
http://investor.google.com/conduct.htmlThat people don't consciously think something, let alone admit to thinking something, doesn't mean their behavior isn't driven by it.
Like getting married... You don't hear anyone saying I'm getting married in order to foster a stable environment in which to procreate, despite the fact that its the primary driver. You'll hear words like love and commitment, but those are logical rationalizations that mask the base instinct upon which the institution of marriage is built.Yes he is saying that. So am I. Find me a reference that shows otherwise and I'll hear you out. This is the correct quote that the Bill Gates 640K meme likely originated from: "So that's a 1 MB address space. And in that original design I took the upper 340k and decided that a certain amount should be for video memory, a certain amount for the ROM and I/O, and that left 640k for general purpose memory. And that leads to today's situation where people talk about the 640k memory barrier; the limit of how much memory you can put to these machines. I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. . That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem." You can enjoy in audio format here: http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=39006
With a failure like this you'd be a sucker to pay for recovery. All you need is to transplant the circuit board from another drive of the same drive model... This had nothing to do with the platters. You could look for a used model online or buy new, and get your data back for less than a hundred bucks.
...Because your an authority on Information Warfare? Come on, feeding another culture/country information they do not currently have access to can have a great effect on whether or not they support a war their country is fighting. If the country is not behind the war, the effort will be much less likely to succeed.
The company has, for example, claimed that in one case we sent a reviewer material that did not come from any Britannica publication. When the company made this point to us in private we asked for details, but it provided none. Now Britannica has identified the review in question as being on ethanol. We have checked the original e-mail that we sent to the reviewer who looked at the Britannica article on ethanol, and it is clear to us that all the reviewer's comments refer to specific paragraphs from Britannica.
Perhaps your right, but the people I deal with on a daily basis view the PC as a cumbersome device that as often as it helps, it hurts productivity. I'll concede the point you made about home video, however there are plenty of good working models for online photo management, which allows the all important sharing and archival of photos.
Every subscription model that has failed has done so due to the platform and implementation. Social networking sites stand as a good example. There are hundreds/thousands of sites which have attempted to do this, however only a couple have flourished - due to a competitive advantage in their specific implementation. Another tired example is the iPod - it wasn't the first mp3 player, but its implementation of the same old thing was just better. This can make all the difference.
The thought that people don't want a subscription model to *anything* is ludicrous though. Not to mention, the implementation I'm thinking of is more a utility model than a subscription model... This service would be like their cable, water, electric, gas, phone, newspaper, etc. If an inexpensive alternative device to the traditional PC can be formulated, which does what people want to do rather than trying to do everything under the sun... Someone will get the platform and implementation right, and people will literally move over in herds.
There is NO "DO NO EVIL" scharade... Their motto is "DON'T BE EVIL". Thats an important distinction when you consider the perspective.