from memory the 1/86400 is anything but arbitrary. older civilizations worked off base 12, specifically the egyptians and I think the babylonians or the sumerians were base 60 for astronomy.
It is highly unlikely to EVER significantly improve, It is like trying to use a sledge hammer to open peanuts, sure you can sorta do it, but no matter what they do it will still be a clumsy, stupid and pointless way to do it that can be done a 1000 times more effectively with other devices.
then what is your point? no one was suggesting tape storage will be gone, merely disk spinning media, ie DVDE/Blu-Ray storage. just like floppy disks became obsolete so will the DVD/Blu-ray form factor.
hell yeah, I will take that deal in a second. MS make more profit by a significant margin at this point with steady continual growth. Apple have skyrocketted by still are a long way below MS profits and will require continual skyrocketting just to equal MS's current profits.
10 TB of videos? how about on what by then will be a hand full of small SD sized cards, probably only half a dozen of em at the most at that. backup will be the same, you can already go well above blu-ray capacity on solid state and in 5 years both price and capacity will only get better.
I could run just about any server application I can think of on port 8443. Just because it has a standard use doesn't mean that that is what the intended use will be. To assume it is standard use would be stupidity.
The problem is with cases with large institutions like hospitals IT is NOT just their to support business, they are their to support business AND are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring legal requirements and regulations are met at all times on the network and connected devices, everything from privacy laws to industry laws and regulations. As such they are a policy/business entity in their own right in these type of institutions, businesses need to give them the due respect to their area of expertise that they are also LEGALLY responsible for.
Sorry but that is absolute garbage, lots of languages are currently way ahead of Java, especially C#. Java's advantage at this point is purely in the JVM where their cross platform strategy quite often make it the more sane choice regardless of the shortcomings of the language.
or a router or a mail server in the chain between the sender and recipient, then you can just read it to your hearts content with no one the wiser. seriously if you are relying on governments or providers to keep your privacy then you have already lost. Sign it if you want to be sure it wasn't altered, encrypt it if you want to be sure it wasn't read. otherwise all bets are off.
IT is the worst change for a small portion of users, for the majority it is one of the best, revealing features and functionality average users never knew even existed but constantly requested.
Sadly the flaw is not the system, it is having trust in people to act in good faith. All this proves is that people can't be trusted with an open system. This is more damning on the indie game fans than the system itself, though really it is hardly suprising, when money is involved no community seems to be beyond a little corruption if left unchecked. Until you can figure out a perfect way to make people not behave in a bias fashion this will always occur, if you do figure out such a perfect system I am sure you will also be an instant millionaire.
that is exactly what I thought when I read it, they found a few bones of a single animal in a single location and somehow jump to the conclusion of where it roamed. That type of assumption really irritates my scientific side.
The cartels care about one thing, MONEY. If it was suddenly legalised they would be sitting pretty with all the infrastrucutre and manufacturing already in place, They don't care whether it is legal or illegal and you can bet they will just as happily take your money legally.
Perhaps you need to go look up your history books. Drugs were not banned because of some dogooder trying to impose their moral beliefs on people, most of the now illegal drugs were perfectly legal and sold everywhere, however they had a devastating effect on both the economy and the health of the general public, addiction levels reached plague like proportions and NO the tax did not come anywhere near covering the costs imposed by a then legal drug trade. Go read up on history of illicit drugs for countries like the US/England/China etc. they were banned for a very good reason.
but they did allow OEM's to use other operating systems. The issue was that they gave preferrential pricing to OEM's that agreed to pay based on the number of machines they shipped, hence the best pricing came by licensing for every machine. bas
Unless Wiki has done something about the moronic system they have in place that allows people to camp articles and defend them by simply deleting anything that doesn't conform to their exact views I can't see why more professional people would be the slightly bit interested in wasting their time there. I corrected a few articles a few years back now where I had enough expertise to realise some mistakes only to see them deleted the very next day, consequently they were also the last contributions I ever made to wikipedia,
Not really, Microsoft have been trying to get Enterprises and targetted markets into tablets for years, They certainly haven't been targetted at the consumer, in many/most cases the tablets have been more expensive versions of laptops and generally targetted at specific industries.
OK a better question is what can she do better from a tablet? for the price of that tablet she could have bought a decent laptop that did all of that and much more with significantly less restrictions?
No it isn't, all he is doing is flailing his arms around pointlessly, you don't learn faster from wasting your time, that is like saying someone will learn basketball faster by being left alone with a court and a ball, it simply isn't the case.
It is a gamble, but not as much as a gamble as sticking with symbian, symbian has been dead for a while, it remains to be seen whether they jumped from the titanic to an equally doomed ship though, only time will tell. Remember even if the gamble fails they can always join the Android bandwagon, phones are rapidly replaced, if they got enough from MS for this it could well be a relatively risk free venture and you can be pretty sure regardless of what the marketing are pushing there will be backup plans and work going on in the backrooms.
What's more the majority of Australian government sites already block hotmail and gmail as well as most other ISP and internet mail providers and have done so for a long time.
To Sink it, doesn't that imply that at some time it actually floated. That processor line has had all the floating abilities of your average house brick since launch, sure for a while a few companies tried to fit the brick with lifejackets, but in the end they were always destined to sink to the murky depths of hell.
That isn't quite true, the rules significantly change once you become a monopoly, things that were perfectly legal suddenly become grounds for action under anti trust laws. Most of what Microsoft did was perfectly legal until they were declared a monopoly.
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from memory the 1/86400 is anything but arbitrary. older civilizations worked off base 12, specifically the egyptians and I think the babylonians or the sumerians were base 60 for astronomy.
It is highly unlikely to EVER significantly improve, It is like trying to use a sledge hammer to open peanuts, sure you can sorta do it, but no matter what they do it will still be a clumsy, stupid and pointless way to do it that can be done a 1000 times more effectively with other devices.
then what is your point? no one was suggesting tape storage will be gone, merely disk spinning media, ie DVDE/Blu-Ray storage. just like floppy disks became obsolete so will the DVD/Blu-ray form factor.
hell yeah, I will take that deal in a second. MS make more profit by a significant margin at this point with steady continual growth. Apple have skyrocketted by still are a long way below MS profits and will require continual skyrocketting just to equal MS's current profits.
10 TB of videos? how about on what by then will be a hand full of small SD sized cards, probably only half a dozen of em at the most at that. backup will be the same, you can already go well above blu-ray capacity on solid state and in 5 years both price and capacity will only get better.
The truly amusing thing is they had lost the standards war and had to buy a victory here to save blu-ray from the junk pile of failed sony formats.
I could run just about any server application I can think of on port 8443. Just because it has a standard use doesn't mean that that is what the intended use will be. To assume it is standard use would be stupidity.
The problem is with cases with large institutions like hospitals IT is NOT just their to support business, they are their to support business AND are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring legal requirements and regulations are met at all times on the network and connected devices, everything from privacy laws to industry laws and regulations. As such they are a policy/business entity in their own right in these type of institutions, businesses need to give them the due respect to their area of expertise that they are also LEGALLY responsible for.
Sorry but that is absolute garbage, lots of languages are currently way ahead of Java, especially C#. Java's advantage at this point is purely in the JVM where their cross platform strategy quite often make it the more sane choice regardless of the shortcomings of the language.
or a router or a mail server in the chain between the sender and recipient, then you can just read it to your hearts content with no one the wiser. seriously if you are relying on governments or providers to keep your privacy then you have already lost. Sign it if you want to be sure it wasn't altered, encrypt it if you want to be sure it wasn't read. otherwise all bets are off.
IT is the worst change for a small portion of users, for the majority it is one of the best, revealing features and functionality average users never knew even existed but constantly requested.
Sadly the flaw is not the system, it is having trust in people to act in good faith. All this proves is that people can't be trusted with an open system. This is more damning on the indie game fans than the system itself, though really it is hardly suprising, when money is involved no community seems to be beyond a little corruption if left unchecked. Until you can figure out a perfect way to make people not behave in a bias fashion this will always occur, if you do figure out such a perfect system I am sure you will also be an instant millionaire.
That isn't a problem, that is a strength. If you can't try ideas be they good or bad we go back to the stagnate mess we were in a few years ago.
that is exactly what I thought when I read it, they found a few bones of a single animal in a single location and somehow jump to the conclusion of where it roamed. That type of assumption really irritates my scientific side.
The cartels care about one thing, MONEY. If it was suddenly legalised they would be sitting pretty with all the infrastrucutre and manufacturing already in place, They don't care whether it is legal or illegal and you can bet they will just as happily take your money legally.
Perhaps you need to go look up your history books. Drugs were not banned because of some dogooder trying to impose their moral beliefs on people, most of the now illegal drugs were perfectly legal and sold everywhere, however they had a devastating effect on both the economy and the health of the general public, addiction levels reached plague like proportions and NO the tax did not come anywhere near covering the costs imposed by a then legal drug trade. Go read up on history of illicit drugs for countries like the US/England/China etc. they were banned for a very good reason.
but they did allow OEM's to use other operating systems. The issue was that they gave preferrential pricing to OEM's that agreed to pay based on the number of machines they shipped, hence the best pricing came by licensing for every machine. bas
Unless Wiki has done something about the moronic system they have in place that allows people to camp articles and defend them by simply deleting anything that doesn't conform to their exact views I can't see why more professional people would be the slightly bit interested in wasting their time there. I corrected a few articles a few years back now where I had enough expertise to realise some mistakes only to see them deleted the very next day, consequently they were also the last contributions I ever made to wikipedia,
Not really, Microsoft have been trying to get Enterprises and targetted markets into tablets for years, They certainly haven't been targetted at the consumer, in many/most cases the tablets have been more expensive versions of laptops and generally targetted at specific industries.
OK a better question is what can she do better from a tablet? for the price of that tablet she could have bought a decent laptop that did all of that and much more with significantly less restrictions?
No it isn't, all he is doing is flailing his arms around pointlessly, you don't learn faster from wasting your time, that is like saying someone will learn basketball faster by being left alone with a court and a ball, it simply isn't the case.
It is a gamble, but not as much as a gamble as sticking with symbian, symbian has been dead for a while, it remains to be seen whether they jumped from the titanic to an equally doomed ship though, only time will tell. Remember even if the gamble fails they can always join the Android bandwagon, phones are rapidly replaced, if they got enough from MS for this it could well be a relatively risk free venture and you can be pretty sure regardless of what the marketing are pushing there will be backup plans and work going on in the backrooms.
What's more the majority of Australian government sites already block hotmail and gmail as well as most other ISP and internet mail providers and have done so for a long time.
To Sink it, doesn't that imply that at some time it actually floated. That processor line has had all the floating abilities of your average house brick since launch, sure for a while a few companies tried to fit the brick with lifejackets, but in the end they were always destined to sink to the murky depths of hell.
That isn't quite true, the rules significantly change once you become a monopoly, things that were perfectly legal suddenly become grounds for action under anti trust laws. Most of what Microsoft did was perfectly legal until they were declared a monopoly.